I worked where IBM's Information Center was installed, it was a CMS product written in APL.
I had to "fix" something, creating an array "yourboat" just so I could <greek letter for ro> it :-) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Wood Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 3:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT, funny. A good comic about "Code Quality" On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:46:44 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: . . . > >"I tried APL once, back in 77. I thought it was the perfect programming >language. One could write an entire program on/in one line of code. " > The only thing I remember about APL is ")OFF". For some reason (lost in the mists of time) we regularly had TSO users who managed to "accidentally" invoke the APL interpreter, which was almost impossible to terminate unless you knew the above magic incantation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
