28 Feb
2003
28 Feb
'03
5:39 a.m.
Hi,
"Eric Smith" <eric(a)brouhaha.com> said:
Adrian Vickers wrote:
ISTR CESIL as being column sensitive, and some early BASICs required
the keyword (only one per statement) to begin in column 6.
I used to occasionally use NCC Filetab which reqired some things to
be in the correct column.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
Gosh, I had /no/ idea that Fortran was a
"column-sensitive" programming
language; I thought that COBOL was the only one...
Um, COBOL isn't. It's free-form. Groups of COBOL statements are
called paragraphs, and in the early days were written just like paragraphs
of prose. Fortunately sanity eventually prevailed, and COBOL has for
many years now been mostly written with one statement per line (or less).
What other languages are column sensitive?
I'd guess at APL, but I'm
sure there are others.
No, no column sensitivity in APL.
RPG is *very* column sensitive, much more so than FORTRAN.
Python is sort of column sensitive. Nothing has to be in a specific
column, but the nesting is controlled by matching indentation, rather
than having begin/end tokens.