From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] APL - was Re: man-page style
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 10:08:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97743c31-e625-39b1-902e-2e531e90ec6f@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1812041840260.52810@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 2018-12-04 2:48 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018, Warner Losh wrote:
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>> And anyone who has not edited sendmail.cf (shudder!) is not a
>> programmer.
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>> Blind, write-only programming at its finest. Trial and error until you
>> think there's no more error. Think.
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> I can only say one thing: APL\360... Now, *there* was a write-only
> language.
For a more positive take on APL -- only for the open-minded -- try watching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xCJ3BCIudI
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> Oh, the stories that I could tell.
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> -- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-04 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-01 23:09 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2018-12-02 2:37 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-12-02 2:44 ` Larry McVoy
2018-12-02 2:59 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-12-02 22:30 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-03 1:05 ` Warner Losh
2018-12-04 7:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-04 15:08 ` Toby Thain [this message]
2018-12-04 17:07 ` [TUHS] APL - was " Nemo
2018-12-04 17:55 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-04 18:55 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2018-12-03 1:14 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah
2018-12-03 1:30 ` Larry McVoy
2018-12-04 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-04 21:34 ` Larry McVoy
2018-12-04 22:11 ` Bakul Shah
2018-12-05 6:50 ` Pierre DAVID
2018-12-28 6:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-04 22:54 ` [TUHS] swtch() (was: man-page style) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-12-05 15:33 ` Clem Cole
2018-12-28 6:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-12-30 19:05 ` Paul Winalski
2018-12-03 6:53 ` [TUHS] man-page style arnold
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