OT: Language for the ages

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sat Oct 15 14:12:23 CDT 2005


On 10/15/2005 at 10:31 AM Fred Cisin wrote:

>APL
>
>It appears to be a subset of Egyption hieroglyphics,
>and is obscure enough that there will be few attempts
>to program in it by people ungamiliar with the language.

Is there any other language that suffers as much from the "one liner"
syndrome--that is, the perverse pride of being able to do something obscure
with a single unreadable line of code?

LISP maybe?

--Chuck






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