[Pl-seminar] Today's hottest new language

[Paul Steckler]

> Subject: [Pl-seminar] Today's hottest new language
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>  http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/

I once had occasion to attend a workshop in Durham.  
When you get off the train in the city centre (sp. intentional),
there is a big plaza with (as I recall) white rubbish bins every 
three feet or so.  Each rubbish bin has the word "Durham" 
in big black letters.

At the time, I supposed there were two possible motivations for the 
well-marked rubbish bins.  Either:

 - they wanted to foil thieves, who wouldn't want rubbish bins
    so clearly marked with their origin, or
 - they wanted to make clear to train travelers just where they'd 
    gotten off, in case there was any doubt

The purpose was clearly not esthetic (while I admit there was little 
or no trash on the ground).

After following the above link, I've come up with a third possibility 
for the marking scheme:

 - as textual relief for local programmers who program in Whitespace: 
once you're used to not seeing text where it belongs, it must be 
refreshing to see it whenever possible.

-- Paul