> APL is the Perl of mainframes. Write-only languages. "You can writ Fortran in any language."
Perl isn't intrinsically hard to read, and the one place where the syntax is opaque, regexen, is shared by all of the competing languages. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 10:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: strange python announcement On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 06:01:14 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >Although I reference APL in a previous message, my favorite language back >in college was PL/I. I haven't seen either language since. My favorite > APL is the Perl of mainframes. Write-only languages. >language under MS-DOS was Turbo Pascal. > I once shared with a co-worker a Mac Pascal program I wrote to translate RTF to (Waterloo?) Script. I relied on the Pascal file buffer -- sort of a 1-character peekahead. Standard Pascal, but Turbo didn't implement it. We were both dismayed. Ever notice how anyone who violates a standard is apt to claim, "My way is better!" -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
