On The Importance of Whitespace
[Chat Transcript]
me: you're in london right?
simon: Roughly speaking. Uckfield actually, but it's only 90 minutes out.
me: Uckfield? sounds like a spoonerism.
simon: Yes, it's named after the river Uck, which has a sign with absolutely no whitespace.
Cheers Simon.
'MikeFitz' on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:09:17 GMT, sez: The River Muck? or Suck? Truck? Luck? Puck? Tuck? Ruck? Buck? Duck? ... What?
'RobS' on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:12:04 GMT, sez: Shefford in Bedfordshire has a similarly white-space constrained sign for the River Hit. No doubt some anorak has all these on a web site!
'Des Trayonr' on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:17:58 GMT, sez: I'm shocked that this didn't turn in a Python discussion.
'lb' on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:27:48 GMT, sez: yeh -- and now i've just googled and found out about the language 'whitespace' in which the code is entirely whitespace. quote from 'http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/'
'Whitespace is a particularly useful language for spies. Imagine you have a top secret program that you don't want anyone to see. What do you do? Simply print it out and delete the file, ready to type in at a later date. Nobody will know that your blank piece of paper is actually vital computer code!'
'Pictorial Evidence' on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:29:13 GMT, sez: link to an image of the aforementioned sign.
http://harriyott.com/2007/06/whitespace-isnt-always-good.aspx
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