Re: why rpg and not cobol

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are always the Perl Obfuscation Contests. People seem to really enjoy taking Larry Wall's "natural-language" Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister and make natural language unintelligible!

Here's an example that slowly displays the text "Just another Perl / Unix hacker", multiple characters at a time, with delays.

@P=split//,".URRUU\c8R";@d=split//,"\nrekcah xinU / lreP rehtona tsuJ";sub p{
@p{"r$p","u$p"}=(P,P);pipe"r$p","u$p";++$p;($q*=2)+=$f=!fork;map{$P=$P[$f^ord
($p{$_})&6];$p{$_}=/ ^$P/ix?$P:close$_}keys%p}p;p;p;p;p;map{$p{$_}=~/^[P.]/&&
close$_}%p;wait until$?;map{/^r/&&<$_>}%p;$_=$d[$q];sleep rand(2)if/\S/;print

And we think we see bad code? Where are the comments?

----- Original Message -----
On 4/12/13 7:47 AM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:
> And, C can be almost as cryptic and obtuse as APL ... :-\

And worse, C will give you enough rope to hang yourself with, and then 
help you tie the knot.

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JHHL