Whitespace

thamer · on Nov 13, 2009

FWIW I made a Whitespace compiler for .NET as an exercise a few years ago. It works with Microsoft .NET and Mono, and emits compiled MSIL code.

http://spacesharp.batard.info/

lt · on Nov 13, 2009

Here's a list of languages in the same vein:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Esoteric_programming_l...

Jim_Neath · on Nov 13, 2009

It's not brainfuck* though, is it?

* http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/

schnalle · on Nov 13, 2009

aren't whitespace, brainfuck* and ook! the same languages (just differently named keywords)?

tome · on Nov 13, 2009

Amusing as this may be it's not very impressive, since it's easy to code any program in any language as sequences of whitespace and then simply decode before passing it to the translator or compiler.

seabee · on Nov 13, 2009

My favourite example of which is perl's Acme::Bleach http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Bleach/lib/Acme/Bleach.pm

stcredzero · on Nov 13, 2009

The wars over source code formatting must be epic!

lele · on Nov 13, 2009

I can't wait for a printed book about this new language.

lt · on Nov 13, 2009

It's also interesting to note that you can select all text to "see" the whitespace code, although that only works for me in Firefox, not in Chrome.

schnalle · on Nov 13, 2009

no, you can't. you see the just the silhouette of the code, not the while code itself - because when selected, tabs and multiple spaces rougly look the same.