At 00:43 02/28/2003 +0000, you wrote:
Gosh, I had /no/ idea that Fortran was a
"column-sensitive" programming
language; I thought that COBOL was the only one...
RPG is, but I only saw that enough to cringe... :-O ;-)
What other languages are column sensitive? I'd
guess at APL, but I'm sure
there are others.
Mmmm... nope. APL is about the least sensitive of all the languages... it's
not syntax sensitive (it has none! it borrows a lot of greek characters and
symbols to make the language... AAMAF, I'm suprised it didn't get mentioned
earlier during the "multi-lingual" language discussion, since it doesn't
have a language to translate...) It's not logic sensitive, either... just
look at any 20+ line APL program [you wrote] 12 months into the future...
it'll take you longer to figure out how you wrote it, than it would take to
rewrite it!
;-)
Beyond that, I wouldn't know what other column sensitive proggies are out
there...
Cheers, Ade.
Prost, "Merch"