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  3. April 2013

Re: why rpg and not cobol

Hi, John:

And, C can be almost as cryptic and obtuse as APL ... :-\

Mark

> On 4/12/2013 9:49 AM, John Yeung wrote:
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Vernon Hamberg
<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do I hear someone calling out APL? Yeah, often called a "write-only"
language!

:)
I have to admit that was the main language I was thinking of. The
now-classic "conciseness of APL" demo is writing Conway's Game of Life
in one line. This probably trumps other languages' one- and two-liner
quicksorts.

Never mind reading; even writing it is no small feat. Hence Stan
Kelly-Bootle's famous

There are three things a man must do
before his life is done;
Write two lines in APL,
And make the buggers run.

John


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