do people really complain about significant whitespace?

[Tim Roberts]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>	I forget what COBOL used, but it had a few fields of its own.

Not in fixed columns.  Surprisingly, layout in COBOL was more closely
related to Python, in that indentation was significant, but the number of
characters per indent was up to the programmer.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.