On 11/21/2010 2:39 PM, Ian Clark wrote: > This harks back to > the time-honoured jibe at APL that it is a "write-only" language Last night, I was reading this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_APL#Entrepreneur_code I see this 'write only' criticism, and I see what to me is the best explanation so far: domain expertise without software expertise leads to powerful yet unmaintainable software. IMO, Perl deserves that title more. I've assigned values to Perl variables, and could not for the life of me see what those values were. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
