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Fortran IV came close. You could put spaces in the middle of identifiers, keywords, and numbers, and the compiler ignored them. The language did not require s
by kbob 8y ago
Fortran IV came close. You could put spaces in the middle of identifiers, keywords, and numbers, and the compiler ignored them. The language did not require spaces as separators anywhere. Spaces were only significant in Hollerith constants (what we'd call string literals today) and in columns 1-6. Columns 1-6 were reserved for line numbers, comment signifiers, and continuation marks.
- emmelaich 8y agoIndeed, the classic resulting bug was the do loop with a typo. Instead of comma the program had a period. So this DO I = 1.100 was interpreted as assignment DOI = 1.1 Though contrary to urban legend it did not result in the loss of any rockets. http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/9.54.html#subj1