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To: 9fans@9fans.net
Date: Wed,  7 May 2008 09:24:38 +0000
From: Matt Erickson <peawee@peawee.net>
Message-ID: <fvnj0q$5kc$3@news.acm.uiuc.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] A new language for Plan 9
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On 2008-05-02, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> pondered onto the tubes:
>> one does
>>
>> 	if key = 'c' then
>> 			scanline
>> 			runcommand
>> 		else
>> 			generate(key)
>> 			assemble(key)
>>
>> This is similar to Python, and prevents the nesting ambiguity of C,
>> Pascal, and some other languages that use block delimiters.
>
> don't forget fortran.

I try to, oh God how I try to.  Then I come back to work in the
morning, and have to remember it all over again.

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Matt Erickson           <peawee@peawee.net>
Political correctness is not insane. You want to call it "alternatively
reality-based". - Richard Bos, Usenet