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From: Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch
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On Jun 21, 1:44=A0am, Eric Sosman <esos...@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:
> =A0 =A0 =A0Any bets on when we'll see a font-sensitive programming langua=
ge?

Wasn't Algol-68 font-sensitive? I seem to remember that reserved words
were required by the language spec to be *bold*. Of course you
couldn't do bold on punched cards so compilers had conventions such as
using single quotes in place of boldened text.