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Subject: Re: Why not allow empty code blocks?
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On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 01:31:42 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info>
declaimed the following:

>
>And you know what? That's fine. It's *good* that there are language
>designers with different ideas of what's valuable. That gives us a rich
>eco-system of languages to pick and choose from. Can you imagine if
>everyone thought the same way and valued the same things? We have *one*
>language, and it would probably be COBOL.
>

FORTRAN

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