Just for fun

Programming Languages.

Kieran Healy provides a pointer to how to understand different programming languages, and warns against upgrading:

Crooked Timber: Don't Upgrade : APL is a pithy language.... A full explanation is available, but not from me. I recommend this page which contains opinions about APL and better-known languages like C (“A language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language”), C++ (“an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog”) and FORTRAN (“Consistently separating words by spaces became a general custom about the tenth century A.D., and lasted until about 1957, when FORTRAN abandoned the practice”).

[Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)]

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