On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:53 44PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> said:
>> All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl.
>
> Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL. At least I can
> reformat the perl! :-)
> --
Oh, I don't know about that -- you an often reformat APL, too. Just because
something can be written in one line doesn't mean it should be!
And bad APL -- well, that's produced either by people who are trying to be too
clever, or who haven't grokked APL's array-as-a-whole philosophy, and try to
use its (very poor) looping or conditional control flow primitives.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
