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• write-only language: n. A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically {write-only code}.
  A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though {INTERCAL} and {TECO} certainly deserve it more....
• one-liner wars: n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see {write-only language} and {line noise}).
  The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly {hairy} primitive set....
• MFTL /M-F-T-L/ [abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language'] 1.
  adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e....
• one-liner wars n. A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noi and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set.
  A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados....
• APL is a write-only language. I can write programs in APL, but I can't read any of them.
  -- Roy Kei...
• APL is a write-only language. I can write programs in APL, but I can't read any of them.
  -- Roy Kei...