begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 12:06:49PM -0700: > > On Fri, October 26, 2007 10:59 am, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:15:52AM -0700: > >> > > [snip] > >> Vernor Vinge (my best programming teacher) used to say that there was no > >> language you couldn't write bad code in and no language you couldn't > >> write good code in. > > > > Heh. Was that before the brainfuck language? > > > > Which brainfuck language? BASIC? C++? perl? >
No, _the_ brainfuck language. Here's "Hello World" in brainfuck: ++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.------.--------.>+.>. There's another programming language that uses only whitespace, but I forget its name. -- The best language is the one that fits the problem and the programmer. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
