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From: faustus@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU (Wayne A. Christopher)
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Subject: Re: Discussion on removing punctuation in programming languages
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Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 00:26:28 EDT
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I think that a lot of the "errors" people complain that punctuation
causes are syntax errors -- in my view, fixing syntax errors is the
easiest part of debugging, and if there is any way that a more
insidious error can be made into a syntax error, that's great.  Without
delimiters, unless your language forces you to type a lot of extra
stuff or program in an unnatural way, it's easy to write something
that's syntactically valid but not what you meant...  Sure, readability
is fine, but you have to make sure that the computer is reading it the
same way...

	Wayne