John, ROTFL. My very first programming experience with an interactive terminal was with one of those IBM TTY typewriter terminals with the "APL" type-ball. I loved APL. I recall that there was an APL journal published at the time that had a regular feature challenging readers to submit the shortest one-line APL program that solved a certain problem. I remember sending in my own submissions, but never came close to matching the sickies that always won. Any APL programmer will confirm that is is not hard to create "write-only" code.... you could write something that you couldn't understand *yourself* an hour later. Great fun ;-)
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> How long before we will see a (generated?) posting about HONE? :-) On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, McKown, John <jmck...@healthmarkets.com>wrote: > > > > How To Write Unmaintainable Code > > Ensure a job for life ;-) > > > > http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html?repost=forPosterity > > > > Mark T. Regan, K8MTR > > CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) > > Easier: Use APL2! > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
