On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 16:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Дана сре, 27-08-2003 у 13:06, Steve Lamb је написао: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:21:05 -0700 > > > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote: > [snip] > > with C. I'm also very reluctant to learn Python because I'm very adamant > > in how I use whitespace. Though I will need to pick it up sooner later. > > <innocently> Why Alex, whatever do you mean by that? And speaking of whitespace, all this comments "start in column 7 and code starts in column 8, not to exceed column 72" is driving me bonkers! :) Though, being that you were the first one to bring this up, and as much as I hate to admit it, I'm beginning to enjoy COBOL. I actually wrote a decent size declaration section today for the first time and I am extremely impressed. I've been using Perl for a number of years with programs that store data in flat files. Usually using a combination of likely-to-be-unique record delimiters (usually :&:) and repeated calls to split(). To find a language that automatically does it for you before you ever even get to the 'real' code is really fascinating. As is the whole 88 thing. I believe they're referred to as conditionals. And that reminds me, you were the one that suggested KOBOL right? I saw that they have a demo version of it available. Is it crippled in any way? They have NO information available on the demo version on the site. (Other than where to download it of course.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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