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From: frsdes@aol.com (FRS DES)
Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results
Date: 1997/10/15
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In article <3444BFC6.794BDF32@druid.net>, "D'Arcy J.M. Cain"
<darcy@druid.net> writes:

>Subject:	Re: Programming language vote - results
>From:	"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
>Date:Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:06:14 -0400
>
>Alan E & Carmel J Brain wrote:
>> Every time someone says how terse and powerful C is, I think of APL.
>
>My favourite quote about APL - "I refuse to use any computer language
>in which the proponents shove snippets of code under each other's
>nose saying 'I bet you can't guess what this does!'"
>
>

I have been a full-time professional APL programmer for more than 7 years.
 I am active in the local and national User groups.  I have NEVER seen
someone doing this.  I will g\rant that it has occasionally happened
between college students recently exposed to APL, but one expects
sophomoric behaviour from sophomores.  In any case, there is a nationaly
publicized "obfuscated C contest" where the contestants spend great time
and effort constructing deliberately obsucre and mangled but functional
programs. By the above reasoning, you should never use C either.



              -David E. Siegel
               Software Developer, Financial Reporting Software (FRS)
               FRSdes@AOL.COM