On 2013-09-27 11:43, Dave Angel wrote:
You should study APL. Many functions were written in one line, with twenty lines of explanation. The function itself was considered unreadable nonsense. And if a function stopped working, general wisdom was to throw it out, and re-implement the explanation. I studied it briefly in class in 1970, and have no idea if there are current implementations.
You are in luck! GNU APL 1.0 was just released! http://www.gnu.org/software/apl/ -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
