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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 107f24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 10259a,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid10259a,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ea8ea502d35ca2ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1164ba,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid1164ba,public X-Google-Thread: 103d24,626a0a064b320310 X-Google-Attributes: gid103d24,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-23 10:34:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!195.54.122.107!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!randhol+abuse From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.basic,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Poetry in source code (was: Beginner's Language?) Followup-To: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:34:09 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <9cukad$nn68@news-dxb> <9d6b6e$1bt$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87snihxiwc.fsf@frown.here> <9dbi83$sji$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <87heyu7cqd.fsf@frown.here> <9dc20p$hh15e$1@ID-37382.news.dfncis.de> <3AFA91BE.BB9E4C8F@brighton.ac.uk> <3B0A74D9.2A811C9D@brighton.ac.uk> <3B0BD618.E5E05418@brighton.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 990639249 18716 129.241.83.82 (23 May 2001 17:34:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 17:34:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7707 comp.lang.lisp:10664 comp.lang.smalltalk:10057 comp.lang.functional:5800 comp.lang.scheme:3994 comp.lang.perl:2911 Date: 2001-05-23T17:34:09+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 23 May 2001 16:24:08 +0100, John English wrote: > Anything but. I suspect that the ability to write poetry means that > the language has gone from being merely flexible to being positively > bendy (or bent :-). I see that there is a contest to write the most obfuscated code in C on http://www.ioccc.org/. I guess there is one for Perl too, or perhaps not, as Perl is obfuscated to begin with. There should be a contest in Perl to write a non-obfuscated code. -- Preben Randhol ------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�