OT: Language for the ages
Fred Cisin
cisin at xenosoft.com
Sat Oct 15 15:24:54 CDT 2005
> >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.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> 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?
C maybe.
while(*t++=*s++);
But APL is terse.
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