On 2/14/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone got a worst language ever!
Well, I managed to steer clear of most really bad languages, but here's a couple of the worst I've used. Applesoft BASIC: Not so much bad as extremely primitive. Numbering your lines is a pain, lack of variable scope is a pain, and although you could call subroutines and return from them, there was no parameter/return value passing. On the other hand, it was there in the ROM, and there were program listings in books and magazines, so it was infinitely better to me than any of the many languages that I didn't have access to. PennMUSH MUSHCode, circa 1993 or so: MUSHCode was always a really nasty language, but this particular version had the added benefit of not even working properly. It seemed to have been designed by someone who didn't know lisp very well; most things were done by evaluating ugly nested expressions, but there were a few statements as well. You had to enter your entire program on a single line, and when it was stored all the whitespace would be compressed from it, leaving a jumbled mass of square brackets, parentheses, commas, and occasional other punctuation and keywords. Most of the language details have fortunately long since been purged from my mind. Actually, if you want to take a look at some examples, here's where you can find some: http://ftp.pennmush.org/MUSHcode/ Be warned; it's pretty ugly! --Levi /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
