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Friday November 15, 2002

06:06 PM

Cryptic Languages

[ #8971 ]

The next person who tells me that perl is a cryptic and obscure lanaguage will be quickly pointed to the K language by Kx

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"K" (Score:2)

by TorgoX (1933)

Shazbot! Is K some kinda recycled Teco?
- Re:"K" (Score:2)
  
  by ziggy (25)
  
  K is an APL derivative. Although this looks more like a prefix version of forth...
kool! (Score:2)

by jhi (318)

I think the XML parser is beautiful.
Readability (Score:2)

by ziggy (25)

The next time someone accuses Perl of being like APL (e.g. cryptic, unreadable and write-only), why not cite [perl.org] the defense that APL programmers use:
APL is Unreadable
“You know what, Russian is unreadable, I don’t know Russian, so it’s unreadable. If you don’t know it, it’s unreadable.”
APL is Unmaintainable
Because APL is unreadable, it’s a write-only language, hence is unmaintainable.

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