On 2016-06-27 14:59, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2016-06-26, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
(Note, for those who don't know (old) Fortran, that spaces and tabs are
not significant. So those dots are needed, otherwise "a eq b" would be
parsed as "aeqb".)
I've always been baffled by that.
Were there other languages that did something similar?
Algol 60 and Algog 68.
Why would a language designer think it a good idea?
It let you have identifiers like "grand total"; there was no need for
camel case or underscores to separate the parts of the name.
Did the poor sod who wrote the compiler think it was a good idea?
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