Re: PostgreSQL future ideas

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 09:06 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:47:10 +0300
> Hannu Krosing <hannu@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 16:37 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > > I don't think that we should rush into any one language without
> > > checking the alternatives.  Personally I think we should port everything
> > > to Intercal.
> > 
> > My choice would be whitespace , see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)
> 
> Hey, we could write two modules into each file, one in Intercal and
> another in Whitespace.  :-)

Good idea! if we are smart, we can interweave them so that the
whitespace inside intercal forms the source code of the Whitespace
program.

That would almost be Literate Programming  - if you are not sure, what
some part of the program does, you can immediately look at the other
implementation.

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Hannu