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== History ==

Whitespace was created by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris in 2002. [[Slashdot]] gavepublished a review of thisthe [[programming language]] on 1 April 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>