Reply to post: The ghost of John Backus would like a quiet word

Behold, the world's most popular programming language – and it is...wait, er, YAML?!?

David Harper 1

The ghost of John Backus would like a quiet word

"Any language where the amount and flavour of whitespace is significant should be strangled at birth."

Except FORTRAN, of course.

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