Rumor has it that John Allain may have mentioned these words:
>> Also reminds me of "programmers" who can "write code" but
>> seem unable to read other people's code. Has anyone else
>> had this experience? I run into this sort of person all the time . . .
>Youu could probably make a graph of "Write Only" languages,
>those that allow you to get things done, but then don't explain
>themselves very well when read later.
>The graph would have CoBOL and Pascal on the left side,
>and c and APL on the right.
I'd have to disagree - I'd think C is somewhere in the middle (well, maybe
middle right) but more to the right would be 68xx/65xx assembly, then x86 &
Lisp, but I'll agree that APL is the "king daddy" of unreadable
languages... that's why I love it so much! ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 10:24:54 GMT