d25001@mic.UUCP (10/12/86)
> Punctuation or seperators (; , .) have long been a part of programming >language design. Anyone who has programmed for even the shortest amount of >will realize that these little demons are responsible for a large amount of >possible errors, thus the question is why have them at all? > [ Example of proposed punctuationless language omitted. ] > >Admittedly, this looks an awful lot like swapping ; for end, and that is >probably so. But aren't end's alot more intuitive then ; ? Maybe not, maybe >so. Which is better? That's up to you.. What do you think? > > dave brosius > dmb at psuvma.bitnet Hoary old FORTRAN used the newline character instead of ";" or "END". One could make a case that this was more intuitive than either. There is certainly no reason to suppose that our choices are limited to just these three possibilities. Carrington Dixon UUCP: { convex, infoswx, texsun!rrm }!mcomp!mic!d25001