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6 Sep 2024 21:20:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reserved words redux  
From: nemesis
Date: 17 Oct 2008 16:59:04
Message: <48f8fc98@news.povray.org>
andrel escreveu:
> 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
>>>
>>> *foreach* index *in *mylist *do *item += /length/(mylist[index])
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>
>> 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/

Yeah, if you want a Turing Complete toy or brainfuck...


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