New Whitespace-Only Programming Language

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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Please not again...

[Fnkmaster]

Do the editors realize that it undermines the whole point of April Fool's Day when everything they post is a joke? Of course, this is the one day out of the year when Taco and friends actually _realize_ the stuff they are posting is BS.

April fools, but

[lingqi]

Okay, not on topic with the story, but these are not serious stories:

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.

I mean, funny as some of this may be, it gets tiring after a while. I mean, you can make a story believable but still false and a good April Fools candidate.

So learn to write some good stories and THEN post to the site, eh?

p.s. the above link provides information that helps a great deal in all sorts of situations, I highly recommend it.

Re:fp

[TheRaven64]

this joke sucks

Actually, this one isn't a joke.

Okay, that's not true. It is a joke, but it's not an April Fools' prank. I was sent a copy of this link yesterday by a friend of one of the language's designers, who confessed to having 'given encouragement at the wrong time'. The language is real, and does work. The interpretor is written in Haskell which, being a functional language, is very well suited to this task (although may not be very quick).

The second article linked to, however, is clearly an April Fools' joke. Feel free to denigrate it if you wish.