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Re: Why I hate c

Thanks for that pointer to IOCCC -- I think that's where that bit of code came from, many years ago.

And now I'm reminded of another language, "whitespace,", wherein all code is composed entirely of three characters: space, newline, and tab.

Here's a example bit of code:

Code:
This is a comment. 
   	

   	    		
 
 	
 	   	 	 
	
     	
	    
    	 		
	  	
	  	   	 	

 
 	    		

   	   	 	
 





   		    	 		  	   		  	  
	   
	

   			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	
 
 			 
 
	  			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	 	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
	
     	
	   
 
 			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	

   			 			 			  	  		 	  	 			 	   		  	 	 	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
 

 


	

   			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	  
 
  
 	
	 			 
    	 	 
	  	
	  			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	   	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
 

   	
	   
 
 			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	  

   			  	  		  	 	 		    	 		  	   	 					 		  	 	 		 			  		  	  
 

   	
	       
		 
	

   		 			  		  	 	 			 			 		 		   		 	  	 		 			  		  	 	
   	 	 
   		 	
	
  	
  
	


End of code example.
Maybe next year FIRST will specify whitespace as the language we use.
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