[oclug] oclug was here

[Raj]

On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 11:37, Sté wrote:
> Dave Edwards wrote:
> 
> I meant that as a response to _why_ people find indenting restrictive 
> - it brings back bad memories of COBOL... *still shuddering from the 
> memories*
> Braces and semi-colons where our salvation from COBOL.
> (When I went to CEGEP,  C was taught before COBOL (sink or swim 
> policy!)... COBOL's tab-oriented(column) structure was a nightmare 
> compared to C's freedom with {,;,})
> 

Talking of whitespace and ancient languages.. I would rather whitespace
was ignored completely.  I still get nightmares of typing in 

9000 DATA "     .             |           .   "
9010 DATA "    .              |            .  "

and so on..  in case you haven't figured it out.. I was trying to type
out a proggy for a flight simulator for the C64 from a magazine..  That
was the runway, and I never quite got the whitespaces right.  Finally
blamed it on a lousy construction crew and played the game with crooked
lines :-)

cheers!