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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:28:18 -0700
Subject: Re: Language design
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
To: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> Evangelical vicar in want of a portable second-hand font. Would
> dispose, for the same, of a portrait, in frame, of the Bishop-elect of
> Vermont.
>
> I think you could quite easily reconstruct the formatting of that,
> based on its internal structure. Even in poetry, English doesn't
> depend on its formatting nearly as much as Python does;

(Just to dispose of this old argument:)  Both Python and English
depend on both syntactical, material delimiters and whitespace.  While
it may seem that Python depends more on whitespace than English, that
is highly contentious, poetry or not.  Take some literature, remove
all the tabs at paragraph start and CRs at paragraph-end so that it
all runs together and you'll find that it impossible to read -- you
just won't be able to enter into the universe that the author is
attempting to build.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington