Careful, *@$$! Probably does something in APL :) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2019 1:01 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue > multitasking issue) > > On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:48 PM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc- > requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > >> Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM: > >>> On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > >>>> > >>>> "C is the first write-once, read-never language." > >>> > >>> Not even close; APL was around nearly a decade before C. > >>> > > Assembler? > > > > While it’s not easy or much fun, I’ve read and even understood a lot of > assembler code. > > Now, I’ll admit that my only real exposure to APL was a two or three week > module in my undergraduate physics lab in 1980 or ’81, but I do vividly > remember working for hours on a program and then coming back the next > day, looking at the two or three lines I’d written, and wondering what the > *@$$! they were supposed to do. > > > -- > Pew, Curtis G > curtis....@austin.utexas.edu > ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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