urgh. Wile I think the C shorthand if/then notation is kinda cool, I really think you can easily go too far with programming where all the time you save on keystrokes you pay by using the shift key a lot more and having to really carefully read. Maybe after a time it would be cool but I prefer my code to be nearly understandable by a non-programmer if they sound it out like a child learning phonetics.
On Friday, 4 May 2018 07:37:27 UTC+3, Michael Jones wrote: > > J is the beautiful result of the APL road. > > On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 8:47 PM Lucio <lucio...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I never felt the need to join an APL fan club, but you sure tempt me, >> Bakul! >> >> Is there one, or do we need to start one? What would be the minimal entry >> qualification? >> >> APL is the only language I learnt that to this day feels like it shifted >> my mindset much more than one notch. I didn't pay much attention to the >> functional languages, though, my university lecturers seem to feel the >> students either bought into them or didn't, they weren't going to push >> them. I never quite made recursion my own, I almost always resorted to >> translating it into stack-driven iteration. To this day. >> >> In passing, I studied at an institution where I had to arrange for the >> APL interpreter to be installed (I was a little privileged, so I was >> allowed to do it myself) and interactive computing became more prevalent >> while I was there. APL wasn't a Computer Science subject, I became the only >> user of a poorly supported, if valiant, interpreter. >> >> Lucio. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > Michael T. Jones > michae...@gmail.com <javascript:> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
