On 17-Oct-08 22:10, nemesis wrote:
> Darren New escreveu:
>> You know, I'm kind of surprised I've never seen a programming language 
>> (that uses different fonts for different purposes. Something like 
>> boldface for reserved words, italics for built-ins, so you could do 
>> something like
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>> *foreach* index *in *mylist *do *item += /length/(mylist[index])
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>> or something like that. Then you could use things like "in" and "do" 
>> as variable names as well. :-)
>>
>> -- 
>> Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
>>
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> That would utterly suck.  Programming languages should be about meaning 
> and meaning is conveyed by words, not by how they are drawn or spelled.
> 
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
http://www.ni.com/labview/
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> Let external tools do any styling to the source text if you will.

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