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David Given <dg@cowlark.com> writes:

> Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> [...]
>> This will always be a problem. Bad identation, poor variable names,
>> bad parenthesization, etc. The list is long. We will not stop bad
>> code with arbitrary rules.
>
> "There does not now, nor will there ever, exist a programming language
> in which it is the least bit hard to write bad programs." --- Flon's Axiom

I refute that axiom: when you are programming in TeX, is is quite hard
to write a bad program.  It is even harder to write a good program, but
that's beside the point.

-- 
David Kastrup