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Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 11:46:13 +0200
From: Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Porting Cocoon to the Whitespace language?
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Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
> I'm starting to think that porting Cocoon to the Whitespace language 
> (http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/) could bring a lot of benefits. 
> Apparently this language allows one to get rid of all encoding problems 
> by using a strictly restricted character set.
> 
> Tools are not yet available for all platforms but they're working on it, 
> and this time of the year seems to be a fruitful one for their team.
> 
> Also, Whitespace, as mentioned on its homepage, is particularly well 
> suited to literate programming.
> As they say, just writing helpful comments in between the Whitespace 
> instructions does the job - this might be very helpful in improving our 
> documentation.
> 
> Anyway, this requires more thought before diving deep into the project, 
> but I really feel that porting Cocoon to Whitespace is A Project For 
> Today...


ahahah :)

Funny, Bertrand, very funny :)

Stefano.