Write only programming

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Thu Feb 28 20:30:33 2002

> > 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! ;-)

Trump card of "far right" languages: INTERCAL. I guess that would make
these languages fascist or something, being so far on the right?

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