[Cialug] Random nerd fact

[Don Ellis]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 3:27 PM Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
wrote:

> On 2018-07-27 15:10, Don Ellis wrote:
> > If you want real terseness, try APL (A Programming Language). All words
> > we're used to seeing were expressed as Greek symbols, which were shifts
> of
> > the normal lower case keyboard.
>
 ...

> I took a little 1-credit class in APL. Neat language from a mathematical
> perspective. But... it is the only truly write-only language that i've
> ever used. Students quickly learned that debugging isn't worth the
> effort. It was easier just to rewrite the whole section of code from
> scratch rather than trying to read and understand the old code.
>

I took an engineering intro course which used APL.

Rewriting the whole section of code isn't all that big a deal, since they
were often just a line or two!

--Don