From: Carl McNealy <carlom@...>
Date: 2003-04-02T13:39:21+09:00
Subject: Re: April Fools.

I think that someone has done just that:

Please feel free to link to it, if you wish:

        http://yagni.com/whitespace/index.html


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josef 'Jupp' Schugt" <jupp@gmx.de>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: April Fools.


> Hi!
> 
> * Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>; 2003-04-01, 22:23 UTC:
> > - New Whitespace-Only Programming Language.
> 
> I do *not* think that this is only a /April Fool'?s Joke/.
> It should not be complicated to write a little Ruby script that
> allows you to map Brainfuck's syntactical elements (only a handful of
> characters) to white space.
> 
> This was actually my first thought when I saw the annoncement.
> Moreover I took a look at the helo world program (using bvi the
> binary vi) - it is really more than a joke.
> 
> One should keep in mind that ruby's syntax does look strange to some
> people as well.
> 
> Josef 'Jupp' Schugt       http://jupp.tux.nu       jupp(AT)gmx(DOT)de
> -- 
> "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
>                                                    -- John F. Kennedy
> 
>