Write only programming

From: Mike <kenziem_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Thu Feb 28 22:19:27 2002

On Thursday 28 February 2002 21:23, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Geoff Roberts wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > And JCL would be where? I class that as the ultimate 'write only'
> > language.
>
> Ahh, JCL. *sigh* There's some memories.

I spend my days fixing JCL and wishing I could find someone wanting me to
write APL. I find perl to be unreadable, and I still haven't gotten very
far with lisp.
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 22:19:27 GMT