2 Apr
2010
2 Apr
'10
4:10 p.m.
On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:53 44PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> said:
All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl.
Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL. At least I can reformat the perl! :-) --
Oh, I don't know about that -- you an often reformat APL, too. Just because something can be written in one line doesn't mean it should be! And bad APL -- well, that's produced either by people who are trying to be too clever, or who haven't grokked APL's array-as-a-whole philosophy, and try to use its (very poor) looping or conditional control flow primitives. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb