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Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'

From "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming, comp.lang.clipper, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.ada, comp.databases.xbase.fox, alt.conspiracy
Subject Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
Date 2017-06-22 00:52 +0800
Organization Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Message-ID <oie82e$jqb$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 22/6/2017 12:48 AM, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Which leads me to the conclusion that the origin of a lot of problems is
> the fact that we save "source" files that are used as-is both for
> human presentation/edition and for machine processing (compiling).  I
> would propose the alternative to save the programs eg. in the form of an
> abstract syntactic tree (let's say lisp S-expressions), and each time it
> is loaded in an IDE/editor, it would be unparsed into the specific
> syntactic and layout/indenting preferences of the programmer; and when
> saved, the programmer specific syntax would be parsed, and the
> S-expression syntactic tree would be saved to the file.  Machine
> processing can use directly these S-expression forms.

Basically, a code beautifier. But some programming languages' CR and LF 
mean something. In the case of COBOL, the first few columns have meanings.

Which makes me believe hard, true SPACE is a simple and better solution. 
Anyway....

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[BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 21:45 +0800
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Per Sandberg <per.s.sandberg@bahnhof.se> - 2017-06-18 22:13 +0200
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 19:03 -0400
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2017-06-18 20:22 -0400
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 22:20 -0400
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-06-19 07:50 +0200
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-06-19 07:24 +0000
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-06-19 08:28 +0000
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 22:28 +0800
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-06-19 20:00 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 18:46 +0800
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-18 18:19 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 22:23 -0400
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-19 12:42 -0700
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 22:19 -0400
          Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-20 11:44 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 18:47 +0800
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' nospam@please.invalid (AnthonyL) - 2017-06-19 11:24 +0000
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 20:26 +0800
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-06-19 20:53 +0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-19 07:11 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 22:27 +0800
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2017-06-21 00:51 +0300
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-20 14:56 -0700
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> - 2017-06-21 13:27 +0100
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-21 05:36 -0700
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-06-21 18:48 +0200
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 00:52 +0800
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Adam Jensen <hanzer@riseup.net> - 2017-07-05 18:36 +0000

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