15 Oct
2005
15 Oct
'05
1:33 p.m.
On 10/15/2005 at 1:24 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
Yeah, but what can compare with this APL sample:
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/one-liner-wars.html
The Perl example seems verbose by comparison.
As a solution to the original topic, has anyone yet suggested INTERCAL?
http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/
Cheers,
Chuck
>APL
>It appears to be a subset of Egyption hieroglyphics,
>and is obscure enough that there will be few attempts
>to program in it by people ungamiliar with the language.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, I wrote:
Is there any other language that suffers as much
from the "one liner"
syndrome--that is, the perverse pride of being able to do something
obscure
with a single unreadable line of code?
LISP maybe?
C maybe.
while(*t++=*s++);