OT: Punctuation-starved Programming Languages

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

Don Y said:


> So, the question:  are (were) there any useful languages
> designed that did not rely heavily on punctuation in their
> syntax?  It almost seems an inconsistency -- older languages
> tended to be skimpy in their syntax (e.g., short identifiers,
> global scope, etc.) which would suggest that punctuation
> exploits would be MORE valuable to them.

Forth.  The only punctuation in Forth is the requirement that
each word in the source be separated from its neighbours by white 
space, ie a space, tab or newline. 

-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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