Language design

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 11:02:27 EDT 2013


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
> There's lots of poetry with significant indentation, though.
> Imbuing the shape of the text on the page with significance is a
> thing.

And you can do that with C code, too. Doesn't mean that indentation is
important to C; it means that you're layering different types of
information into a single piece of work. It's like Perl code drawn in
the shape of a camel - a beautiful hack.

ChrisA



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