From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ]
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:00:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W4RvB9SDFamPwuzoi-suUr0ts9wy_NHesEhRO5BT6HhyQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202111161754.1AGHsGsN929905@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 12:57 PM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:
> Douglas McIlroy writes:
> > APL is a fascinating invention, but can be so compact as to be
> > inscrutable. (I confess not to have practiced APL enough to become
> > fluent.) In the same vein, Haskell's powerful higher-level functions
> > make middling fragments of code very clear, but can compress large
> > code to opacity. Jeremy Gibbons, a high priest of functional
> > programming, even wrote a paper about deconstructing such wonders for
> > improved readability.
>
> Wasn't Perl created to fill this void?
>
I thought Perl was a reaction to exceeding awk's tolerance for abuse?
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-16 17:00 [TUHS] Book Recommendation Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 17:54 ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] Jon Steinhart
2021-11-16 17:57 ` Ron Natalie
2021-11-16 18:00 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2021-11-16 18:04 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-16 19:53 ` Richard Salz
2021-11-16 20:05 ` Warner Losh
2021-11-17 19:12 ` Norman Wilson
2021-11-17 20:46 ` Dan Stromberg
2021-11-17 20:52 ` Warner Losh
2021-11-17 21:17 ` Dan Cross
2021-11-17 22:21 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-18 0:35 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 20:04 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-19 20:14 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 21:48 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-19 22:28 ` Larry McVoy
2021-11-19 23:17 ` Alan Glasser
2021-11-18 21:03 ` George Michaelson
2021-11-18 21:39 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-17 22:36 ` Bakul Shah
2021-11-18 0:56 ` Dan Stromberg
[not found] ` <CAKH6PiXinxBQGRqoeGMcG9CwTA5BNeU-LY164f-ZLYA4obsyuA@mail.g mail.com>
2021-11-16 18:47 ` [TUHS] Book Recommendation John Foust via TUHS
2021-11-16 20:35 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 21:35 ` Duncan Mak
2021-12-02 22:32 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-02 22:34 ` Rob Pike
2021-11-16 19:29 [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ] Douglas McIlroy
2021-11-16 19:54 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-11-18 18:47 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2021-11-18 19:03 ` arnold
2021-11-18 19:16 ` Chet Ramey
2021-11-18 19:20 ` arnold
2021-11-18 21:03 ` John Cowan
2021-11-18 21:42 ` Rich Morin
2021-11-18 22:59 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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