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To: freedumb2003
People Against Stupid Compilers And Languages.

I think the stupidest language I ever ran across was an abomination called "whitespace". The language elements were all composed of "whitespace" characters (space, tab, newline, etc).

128 posted on 09/09/2006 3:08:14 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic
> I think the stupidest language I ever ran across was an abomination called "whitespace". The language elements were all composed of "whitespace" characters (space, tab, newline, etc).

Sounds like just the thing for writing secret messages.

129 posted on 09/09/2006 3:10:35 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: tacticalogic
I think the stupidest language I ever ran across was an abomination called "whitespace".

Here is a program:

10
20
30
40 GOTO 10

It isn't very fun -- sort of like playing "fetch" with a dead puppy ;)

130 posted on 09/09/2006 3:10:48 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (the war on poverty should include health club memberships for the morbidly poor)
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