Re: Interpreter for old basic programs from the line number era

On 8 Mrz., 01:53, ArarghMail803NOS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 23:58:56 +0000 (UTC), "Auric__"
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> <not.my.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> <snip>
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> >Yeah, I know, I shouldn't complain, especially after Python or
> >whatever language it is where whitespace is important.
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> Wouldn't touch such a language with a 10 foot pole.  :-)

The importance of whitespace can have several degrees:
- There are languages where whitespace is needed to
  separate symbols that would otherwise be recogniced as
  one symbol. This is the '107ELSE' problem from above.
  Btw.: Almost every programming language has such problems.
- There are languages where spaces are used as statement
  terminators.
- Then there are languages which I wouldn't touch with
  a 10 meter pole: The identation has a meaning.

Generally I am sceptical to the last 2 reasons
for whitespace.

Greetings Thomas Mertes

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