On Jun 10, 8:50 pm, "BCB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wholeheartedly agree, and did not mean to imply as much in my original > post, in which my intent was to emphasize the fact that, until you learn the > language, a J program /does/ resemble line noise! :-)
Eh. This isn't right. The whole discussion was supposed to have died after the original Perl joke, certainly after the subsequent exclusion of joke and toy languages. I think I made it clear also that an editor's command set, Turing-complete though it may be, constitutes a toy language. Anyway I amend the original claim to cover joke languages, toy languages, and any write-only languages that mysteriously aren't considered to fall into either of the former two categories. After all, you can't really take a language seriously if it's either impossible to write unmaintainable code in it OR impossible to write maintainable code in it. The one is necessarily trivial, and the other unsuitable for anything serious, except as a machine-compiled intermediate format or a mechanism for assuring job security. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
