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From: "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "Jon Steinhart" <jon@fourwinds.com>,
	"TUHS main list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages ]
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:57:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <em0d1304ef-31a4-4af2-a168-4ef8cfbbc4d6@alien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202111161754.1AGHsGsN929905@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

Awk bailing out near line 1.


------ Original Message ------
From: "Jon Steinhart" <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: "TUHS main list" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: 11/16/2021 12:54:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages 
]

>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?


  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-16 17:59 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2021-11-16 18:00   ` Dan Cross
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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