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Wow, and colleagues dared complain that Rust has a terse, hard to read, syntax...
by tuetuopay 5y ago
Wow, and colleagues dared complain that Rust has a terse, hard to read, syntax...
- betterunix2 5y agoThere are examples of far worse languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Exa... At least the Hello World example is readable...
- idealmedtech 5y agoI always love watching that incredible old APL demo [1], though. Seems incredibly futuristic for the time! edit: this is actually a different demo, but there's a similarly impressive one focused on showing APL, from the 70s I think? Will update if I find it! [1] - https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY https://youtu.be/yJDv-zdhzMY
- microtherion 5y agoIncidentally, that obscure "iota" name that OP was complaining about came about by way of APL (which of course used an actual Greek letter to write it).
- scotty79 5y agoActually I'd prefer greek letter. At first I read iota as itoa which is also a thing.
- mshockwave 5y agoIIRC, APL even has its own keyboard (to type the code)