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Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#13
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we can give the creator the benefit of the doubt and assume that this language was created as a parody of these debates.

most of these debates consists of parody. trolls trolling trolls.

It's trolls all the way down.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#18
post #16

Shouldn't this language be white-space insensitive in order to be truly pure as a semicolon language?

Clearly, practicality was chosen over purity; I find the added readability gained by the space separators to be much more pragmatic.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#19
Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!:

" "

^ Pretty elegant, right?

let's try something a little more complex:

" "

^ As you can see, the goal of this new language is to take the best of Semicolon and just make it more succinct, and to round out some of the minor historical abnormalities that have been dragged along in the language spec for a while now.

So my hope is that you all enjoy CoffeeColon as much as I do. It's just like Semicolon, maintaining it's expressiveness and dynamic nature, with just a little bit of smoothing out of the kinks.

Thanks!

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