Garrett G. Hodgson garry at research.att.com
Wed Jul 14 13:37:22 EDT 1999

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Christopher Browne wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 18:41:59 GMT, William Tanksley
> <wtanksle at dolphin.openprojects.net> wrote:
> >(although I am curious as to whether an indent/dedent based syntax might
> >be amusing in Lisp).
> 
> That would provide opportunity for the implementation to be criticized
> inanely by *absolutely everyone.*
> 
> Not only those that see Lisp as "too many parens," but also those that
> knee-jerk into thinking that Python must be worthless due to
> "indentation-sensitivity."

if you could only add in the required use of all combinations of
[$&@_;{}] as well, you might have the perfect language for flamebait.

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