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Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf] by al2o3cr on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:07AM (#16097169)
From section 6 (page 160), bottom left:

    (c) Indentation, used to indicate program structure. A
    physical IswiM can be defined in terms of an unspecified
    parameter: a subset of phrase categories, instances of
    which are restricted in layout by the following rule called
    "the offside rule." The southeast quadrant that just contains
    the phrase's first symbol must contain the entire
    phrase, except possibly for bracketed subsegments. 
Did this invent Python-style significant whitespace?
Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf] by mbrock on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:30AM (#16097365)
Yes, and the Q&A at the end invented complaining about it.
Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf] by tzs on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:06PM (#16098109)
> From section 6 (page 160), bottom left

In case anyone might be discouraged from reading the article because they don't have time to read something 160+ pages long, don't worry. It's an article extracted from a journal, and the page numbers are the page numbers from the journal issue. It's actually only around 10 pages.

Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf] by cross_wiber on Monday January 08, 2018 @12:40PM (#16098352)
No. The MADCAP programming language included indentation for conditionals and for-loops at least by 1961 (see, for example, the chapter on MADCAP II in Annual Review in Automatic Computing Volume 2).
Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf] by pjmlp on Monday January 08, 2018 @01:18PM (#16098598)
Languages with significant whitespace style are older than Python.
Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf] by coldtea on Monday January 08, 2018 @07:04PM (#16102202)
Which the parent didn't argue against, only wondered whether this feature was first described in this paper.