language aesthetics

Mike Rovner mike at bindkey.com
Tue May 20 12:52:22 EDT 2003


"Fernando Perez" <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ba41dd$i3$1 at peabody.colorado.edu...

> > "Ulrich Petri" <ulope at gmx.de> writes:
> > I have no idea what that means, but:
> >     sub swap (*@_ is rw) { @_[0,1] = @_[1,0] }
> > Is going to be giving me nightmares tonight. :^)

> leads straight to madness, in an orgy of syntax and notation like the
> programming world has never seen before.  Oh well, we'll see...

Why, IMHO APL was similar mad and insane :)

WBR,
Mike








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