From: fredrik at pythonware.com (Fredrik Lundh)
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:24:59 GMT
Subject: Python T-shirt, mascot
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William Peterson wrote:
> What, pray tell, is the "Knuth indentation quote"?

http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/quotations/python-quotes.html

    "We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which
    are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so
    that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might be-
    come feasible for expressing local structure in the source
    language."

    -- Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto State-
    ments", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974 

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