Books for the NOC guys...

Fri Apr 2 20:10:29 UTC 2010

On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:53 44PM, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> said:
>> All true, but I'd still say there's a special rung in hell for bad perl.
> 
> Ehh, bad perl is still more readable than good APL.  At least I can
> reformat the perl! :-)
> -- 

Oh, I don't know about that -- you an often reformat APL, too.  Just because something can be written in one line doesn't mean it should be!

And bad APL -- well, that's produced either by people who are trying to be too clever, or who haven't grokked APL's array-as-a-whole philosophy, and try to use its (very poor) looping or conditional control flow primitives.  

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb