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Subject: Re: Discussion on removing punctuation in programming languages
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Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 13:00:57 EDT
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> I propose we can remove the semicolon, without losing its effectiveness
> by insisting that statements (and in general parse units) be equally
> bracketed. By this I mean that every construct have some sort of
> end-construct at the end of the construct. 

Try lisp.  Personally, I find that the high density of parentheses gets
in the way of readability.

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Saumya Debray
University of Arizona, Tucson

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