[TML] Habitable Zones

Mark Urbin eclipse at urbin.net
Sat Nov 10 14:12:34 MST 2007


At 02:54 PM 11/10/2007, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:45 AM, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> > Now if you want gibberish, there's always APL. I've got an old APL
> > interpreterm but I never got around to learning the language.
>Ahhh, APL, where a random string of characters produced by repeatedly
>slapping the keyboard has a 50-50 chance of being a valid program.

Ahhh...the very first programming language I learned.
Writing dense, hard to understand code *was* the goal. :-)
That half the character set was in Greek just made it cooler.


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