30 Sep
2026
30 Sep
'26
6:39 a.m.
aka curly-brace languages
On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 2:31 PM ben via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 2026-09-29 5:57 p.m., Jim Davis via cctalk wrote:
And all our daily driver languages look like
Algol or FORTRAN,
excepting Forth and APL, both written by mad scientists,
And token parsing still is from the 1950's for many languages
where blank spaces are ignored and a end of line/card or semicolon
is needed to separate id's.
Ben.