Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: Emacs + input syntax

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:

| Gaby, Ralf,
| 
| On Thursday, May 11, 2006 5:58 PM you wrote:
| > 
| > Bill Page writes:
| > 
| > | On Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:01 PM Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
| > | > ... 
| > | > I would always suggest to forget about the #pile mode when 
| > | > you program in Aldor ...
| > | 
| > | Why? Your suggestion seems to me only a kind of
| > | linguist prejudice.
| > 
| > I think I'm with Ralf here.  I find the pile notation highly
| > confusing and irritating when editing.  It is one of the
| > downsides I find with Python, Haskell, Axiom, etc.  For me,
| > it isn't different those infamous "tabs" in Makefiles.  It
| > is a relic from stone ages we should not carry over.
| 
| In what sense is this notation "a relic"? Do you know other
| "ancient" languages (besides SPAD) that used this syntax?

Makefile does not qualify? :-)

It is NOT the language that is a relic, it is the syntax -- like the
semicolons "known" to be the cancer of programming languages.   

-- Gaby