[TML] Habitable Zones

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 10 Nov 2007 at 12:54, 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.

Ah! But is it *useful*? :-)

What scared me (and others even vaguely familiar with APL) was the 
guy who had to maintain a program that was several *thousand* lines 
of APL. 

Given that both the Sieve benchmark and a line editor are *one line* 
(and short lines, at that) programs in APL, that much code is the 
sort of thing to make you gibber.

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com