Whitespace delimiters suck

[Keith Dart]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Justus Pendleton wrote:

> 
> > I thought they gotten rid of all such languages until I came across
> Python.
> > Good programming languages should be whitespace tolerant, and most of
> them
> > are.
> 
> Haveyouevertriedtore adEng lishthatdoesn 'tuse whitespaceproperly?
> 
> Most human languages aren't really whitespace tolerant (well, at least
> the ones I know :-).  When I was learning Japanese, one of the hardest
> things about reading it was the fact that they don't use whitespace to
> delineate words.
> 
> How come now one is out there advocating that we "fix" English by
> removing the mandated whitespace?  :')

In ancient times (using cuniform, etc.) texts were written without spaces,
or even vowels. consonants were just strung together. I guess this was
done to save space, since these forms of writing were very expensive (in
time and materials).



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