On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 06:23:37PM +0100, Jose' Matos wrote: > On Friday 14 April 2006 16:00, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > > I think you don't love APL ;-) > > > > > > I never saw it in a real project, so I don't know whether I would love > > > it :-) > > > > I had a collegue which used and loved that programming language. > > I was really impressed by its compactness but was much more impressed > > by its crypticity ;-) > > Oh, you mean that the middle P is for Perl? I agree.
Knowing both, I would say that perl is much more verbose ;-) APL even uses its own character set, and, lacking that, a couple of chars can be used. An APL program looks not much different than the Rosetta Stone. -- Enrico
