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> If you don't understand the code, probably you don't know what kinds of mental processes are needed to understand it. Probably, but then: I spent close to a
by ur-whale 4y ago
> If you don't understand the code, probably you don't know what kinds of mental processes are needed to understand it.
Probably, but then: I spent close to a year of my life writing "software" in APL.
I hated every second of it, especially the part where I'd need to zoom to the bathroom and come back 5 mn later not being able to understand how the last line of code I wrote worked.
I can't even imagine what it would take today, or to the poor soul who inherited the code.
The code I've looked at here reminds me exactly of that time.
Boy would I never go back to doing stuff like this.
- kragen 4y agoThere certainly are a lot of people who used APL at one time and then stopped. One of Richard Stallman's first software projects back in the 01960s was a text editor written in APL. Is it possible the software you were working on was shitty in a way that wasn't essential to APL?