Free-form language

In computer science, a free-form language is a programming language which generally ignores whitespace within the compiling code; but not within string literals, and the like. In general, free-form languages are easier to read, and can be formatted to fit a variety of reading preferences. C and C++ are both free-form languages. This characteristic is sometimes used to create ASCII art

An example of a non-free-form language is the Python programming language, where the degree of indentation is used to indicate code blocks.