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New Whitespace-Only Programming Language

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the drag-your-mouse-down-the-examples dept.

foobarbazquux writes "Introducing whitespace, a language designed to compensate for the "white-space doesn't count" culture of contemporary programming languages. Amaze your friends by hiding programs in your web-pages! Astound colleagues by putting a virus in your text file!" (And for those who prefer obfuscation to invisibility, Koshatul writes "This article in the Sydney Morning Herald, tells of a new programming language which 'makes it impossible to express a security vulnerability in a program's source code.'")

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  1. Re:Ok. Stop it. by ChazeFroy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The novelty of this wore off in 1998.

  2. Re:April fools, but by cgreuter · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I just want to mention that April Fools to me has always been to make up BELIEVABLE stories that you can gloat over later - which really adds to more of the fun.

    Perhaps I'm being trolled here, but I went ahead and downloaded the interpreter and wrote a toy program with it, so this is a real language.

    And that is the real April Fool's joke.

  3. Re:Please not again... by horza · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot is a meta-blog, not a real news source. It's fun to see the best/cleverest April Fools from around the world, even if we sorta know what's coming. Though it would also be fun to have an outrageously obvious April Fools posted that turns out to be true ;->

    Phillip.

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