OT: Punctuation-starved Programming Languages
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 08:42:35 CDT 2006
>> It was thus said that the Great Don Y once stated:
>>> 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.
REXX.
Peace... Sridhar
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