OT: Skilled migration

phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org
Fri Mar 4 02:45:59 UTC 2005


On the subject of write-only languages, I recall that Forth was once
characterized as 'a language that uses a human pre-processor'.

Peter


> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:
>> There's More Than One Way To Do It - the official Perl motto.
>>
>> The unofficial motto is; "Yeah, it looks like line noise, but this
>> one-liner can't be written in less than 200 lines of C."
>
> However, the unofficial corollary is:  "Mind you, the 200 lines of C would
> probably be easier to understand and maintain!"
>
>                                                           Henry Spencer
>                                                        henry at spsystems.net
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