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The Determined Programmer Can Write A FORTRAN Program In Any Language.
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The determined programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language.
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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....
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...
Real programmers don't program in LISP. Any language with more parenthesis than actual code is for airheaded wienies who can't write real programs.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
) -- Larry Wall in <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>...
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous....