Editing Whitespace (programming language) (section)

== History ==

Edwin Brady and Chris Morris, who also developed the Kaya and [[Idris (programming language)|Idris]] languages, created Whitespace in 2002 at the [[University of Durham]]. 
[[Slashdot]] published a review on [[April Fool's Day]] 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/03/04/01/0332202/New-Whitespace-Only-Programming-Language |title=New Whitespace-Only Programming Language |date=2003-04-01 |website=Slashdot |author=Timothy |access-date=2014-01-23}}</ref>

The idea of using whitespace characters as operators for the [[C++]] language had been facetiously suggested five years earlier by [[Bjarne Stroustrup]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stroustrup.com/whitespace98.pdf |title=Generalizing Overloading for C++2000 |first=Bjarne |last=Stroustrup |publisher=AT&T Labs |location=Florham Park, NJ, USA |access-date=2014-01-23}}</ref>