From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11390f,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid11390f,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c42ac518eba0bbe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: randy@godin.on.ca (Randy MacDonald) Subject: Re: Programming language vote - results Date: 1997/10/17 Message-ID: <6275lq$agm$4@news.on>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 281155121 Distribution: world References: <343fbb5a.0@news.iprolink.ch> <343FD05C.8986A557@flash.net> <34428914.2D71D0F@ibm.net> <01bcd87f$7fefcf00$25a43a91@basil.omroep.nl> <34458CE3.507C@dynamite.com.au> <3444BFC6.794BDF32@druid.net> <34466EB4.3381@dynamite.com.au> <3gIvKGAfUmR0EwEl@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk> Organization: Godin London Incorporated Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.apl,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3gIvKGAfUmR0EwEl@yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk>, John Sullivan wrote: >You can do exactly the same thing in most other languages. but it takes sooo much longer.... >So, why didn't you document your code when you wrote it? Don't blame APL >for your own inadequacies. I'm not sure if the impenetrability of the "security" code was a problem or a solution, are you? The lovely thing about incomprehensible APL is, when you find it, how little of it there is, compared to reams of C. -- |\/| Randy A MacDonald | Bring me... BLUE PAGES!!!! |\\| randy@godin.on.ca | BSc(Math) UNBF '83 | APL: If you can say it, it's done. Natural Born APL'er | *** GLi Info: info@godin.on.ca *** | Also http://www.godin.on.ca/randy ------------------------------------------------<-NTP>----{ gnat }-