Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf]
by al2o3cr on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:07AM
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From section 6 (page 160), bottom left:
Did this invent Python-style significant whitespace?
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Re:The Next 700 Programming Languages (1965) [pdf]
by mbrock on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:30AM
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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
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> 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
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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).