Whitespace - Esoteric programming language

Whitespace is an esoteric programming language created in 2003.

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Whitespace is an esoteric programming language developed by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris at the University of Durham (also developers of the Kaya and Idris programming languages). It was released on 1 April 2003 (April Fool's Day). Its name is a reference to whitespace characters. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: esoteric programming language
Explore Whitespace snippets on Rosetta Code
Whitespace appears in the TIOBE Index
Whitespace appears in the Quine Relay project
See also: (6 related languages) Idris, Python, Brainfuck, INTERCAL, LOLCODE, Malbolge

Example from Riju:

Hello, world

Example from hello-world:

Example from the Hello World Collection:

Hello #World #in #Whitespace	* # #	* # # #
+	*[Space]
+ #is #marked #with"#" # #[tab]	#with"*"	*line-feed #with #"+"	* #	*so
+it	#would
+be #easier #to #write #again... #All	*the	*non-whitespace-characters #are	*ignored...	* # #
+	*
+ # # # # #	*	* #	*	* # #
+	*
+ # # # # #	*	* #	*	*	*	*
+	*
+ # # # # #	* # # # # #
+	*
+ # # # # #	* #	* #	*	*	*
+	*
+ # # # # #	*	* #	*	*	*	*
+	*
+ # # # # #	*	*	* # #	* #
+	*
+ # # # # #	*	* #	*	* # #
+	*
+ # # # # #	*	* # #	* # #
+	*
+ # # # # #	* # # # #	*
+	*
+ # # # # #	* #	* #
+	*
+ # #
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