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From: AES on 28 Apr 2010 13:25
In article <83ptlrFq33U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:

>
> As for APL being "1/10 as comprehensible" I have difficulty in fully
> understanding that as I have never experienced a problemin
> understanding the details of a program written in APL. And, of course,
> a bit of commenting helps!
>

Well, there was an oft-quoted description of APL programs as being so
difficult to decode or understand, once written, that they could only be
characterized as "Write once, read never". (Never worked with it
myself, however).

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From: Tom Stiller on 28 Apr 2010 14:12
In article <siegman-57F670.13255428042010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <83ptlrFq33U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft(a)me.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > As for APL being "1/10 as comprehensible" I have difficulty in fully
> > understanding that as I have never experienced a problemin
> > understanding the details of a program written in APL. And, of course,
> > a bit of commenting helps!
> >
>
> Well, there was an oft-quoted description of APL programs as being so
> difficult to decode or understand, once written, that they could only be
> characterized as "Write once, read never". (Never worked with it
> myself, however).

There are two thing a man must do before his days are done.
That's write two lines in APL and make the suckers run.

--
Tom Stiller

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From: Tom Stiller on 28 Apr 2010 17:20
In article <g.kreme-3C0C6F.15090928042010(a)news.iad.newshosting.com>,
Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontemailme> wrote:

> In article <tom_stiller-0E747C.14124028042010(a)news.individual.net>,
> Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > There are two thing a man must do before his days are done.
> > That's write two lines in APL and make the suckers run.
>
> var <- "Hello World"
> var
>
> There, done.

Now you can die in peace. :-)

--
Tom Stiller

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From: Wes Groleau on 28 Apr 2010 23:06
On 04-28-2010 00:21, TaliesinSoft wrote:
> One who stands out to me is Kenneth Iverson, the person who
... invented possibly the most powerful language ever.
Also the second most unreadable (second only to whitespace).

--
Wes Groleau

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated
than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson
From: Tom Harrington on 28 Apr 2010 23:10
In article <hrat4d$bv8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> On 04-28-2010 00:21, TaliesinSoft wrote:
> > One who stands out to me is Kenneth Iverson, the person who
> ... invented possibly the most powerful language ever.
> Also the second most unreadable (second only to whitespace).

INTERCAL has got to rank highly on that list.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
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