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So you'd like to use APL, then? He didn't say symbols. Verbose code can be much easier, though stupidly verbose is stupid. Compromise is, as usual, the best
by mises 7y ago
So you'd like to use APL, then? He didn't say symbols. Verbose code can be much easier, though stupidly verbose is stupid. Compromise is, as usual, the best solution.
- w56rjrtyu6ru 7y agoAny character is a symbol, and an unfamiliar string of characters, ASCII or otherwise, is perceived by the unaccustomed eye as "a string of unfamiliar symbols" simply because at a glance you have no idea what it means. As for APL, in fact I would try it, it's one of the more interesting relics that sometimes surface on HN. What could I achieve with it though? Many nice things have been lost to ecosystem fatigue even if a spec stays the same. Compromise is best of course. "Halfway happy."