RE: new programming language for linux/unix


Subject: RE: new programming language for linux/unix
From: stephen king (sking@chartercollege.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 02 2003 - 17:16:14 AKST


But...ah...problem...if you color coded it then it wouldn't be
whitespace any more. On second thought, I guess that's not all *that*
much of a problem...after all, Visual Basic isn't all that Basic. MS
people are used to a little double-speak, eh?

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From: furbs [mailto:furbs@swjedi.net]=20
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 3:53 PM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: RE: new programming language for linux/unix

     That is beautiful...I would do that if I knew how just for fun. And
to=20
identify the code it would color the whitespace. Then you would just
have to=20
memorize the color codes, and then you could click on the white space to
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where it points or where it goes next if it applies. Shhh...Bill might
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listening already with his super e-mail spy satallite...

     Brian ThunderEagle
      - http://www.swjedi.net
      - furbs@swjedi.net
      - bthundereagle@aidea.org

Quoting stephen king <sking@chartercollege.edu>:

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> Actually, I can see us porting this right over to Windoze...Visual=20
> Whitespace. Why not, eh? We'd make a fortune! It could have little=20
> buttons to click on to add a space, or a tab, or a line feed.=20
> Brilliant!
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> I can't do it myself, though...some people have way too much time on=20
> their hands but I'm not one of them.
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> Stephen
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: furbs [mailto:furbs@swjedi.net]=3D20
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:02 PM
> To: Aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: Re: new programming language for linux/unix
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> Lol
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> Who is responsible?=3D20
> The interpreter was written by someone who shouldn't have stayed up so

> late,=3D20 Edwin Brady, and the language was designed by two people =
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> shouldn't have had=3D20
> so much to drink, Edwin Brady and Chris Morris. No doubt Andrew
> Stribblehill=3D20
> isn't entirely blameless either.
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> Well...if this isn't a joke, and I get the feeling it isn't entirely a

> joke it=3D20 is kinda neat. Not a very good idea, the kind of=20
> interpreter it would take to=3D20
> make the code so you could visually understand it would be crazy. What
> if you=3D20
> made a typo? An extra white space? Thats a lot of nothing to go
through.
> It's=3D20
> creative though.
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> Brian ThunderEagle
> - http://www.swjedi.net
> - furbs@swjedi.net
> - bthundereagle@aidea.org
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> Quoting Jim Gribbin <jgribbin@alaska.net>:
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> > http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
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