Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages (was: Way to flatten nested \include's?)

2015-08-26 Thread Johan Vromans
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 18:41:54 +0200 Jacques Menu imj-muz...@bluewin.ch wrote: In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the next two weeks : find out what this sample program (25 symbols altogether) does. A guy says two weeks later: « It does this and that… but it

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages (was: Way to flatten nested \include's?)

2015-08-25 Thread Jacques Menu
Hello Michæl, In the APL course I took years ago, the teacher said: « Exercice for the next two weeks : find out what this sample program (25 symbols altogether) does. A guy says two weeks later: « It does this and that… but it took me two and a half hours to find out! » And teacher answers: «

Re: OT: Beauty of programming languages (was: Way to flatten nested \include's?)

2015-08-24 Thread Andrew Bernard
Greetings Michael, I used to use APL! Truly wonderful. As to beauty, while subjective, amongst mathematicians at least there is a shared sense of the beautiful, and not purely personal taste. Scheme has the elegance mathematicians and computer scientists perceive. Nobody could say Python is