why ; ?

[Bruce Adams]

On Thu, 08 May 2008 18:20:15 +0100, Janice Caron <caron800 at googlemail.com>  
wrote:

>> Programmer, who got used to one language finds it difficult to switch  
>> to another language, because different languages require different  
>> styles of thinking. Thus for C programmer it's difficult to understand  
>> block statement without braces :) and for basic programmer it's  
>> difficult to delimit block statement with braces.
>
> Ah yes - that's probably true.
>
> I wonder if it's possible to write a standalone tool that doesn't know
> or care about language grammar (except maybe some general rules about
> what constitutes a quote or a comment), that can freely convert
> between
>
>     Lorem ipsum (dolor sit amet)
>     {
>         consectetur!(adipisicing)(elit, sed);
>         do
>         {
>             eiusmod tempor incididunt;
>             ut labore;
>             et dolore;
>         }
>         magna(aliqua);
>     }
>
> and
>
>     Lorem ipsum (dolor sit amet):
>         consectetur!(adipisicing)(elit, sed)
>         do:
>             eiusmod tempor incididunt
>             ut labore
>             et dolore
>         magna aliqua
>
> If so, we can have not only D-in-Python-style (which I'd never use),
> but also Python-in-D-style (which I actually might). It sounds like it
> ought to be feasible.

That's actually quite a clever way to enter a code obfuscation contest. My  
grasp of latin
is just sufficient to want to make me try to interpret what your saying  
(and fail because
I dropped Latin in favour of Chemistry) and ignore your code.