[spacecowboy_lon]

Now if we could all get back to using real Languages like Fortran and PL1/G :-)

[coldcode]

APL will solve all the world's programming problems in just one line. Then it will take the world to figure out what the hell it does.

[jschwartzi]

But it's concise, and therefore elegant, so who cares?

[leoc]

Not even Deep Thought will be sufficient.

[a3n]

But you can write Fortran in any language! :)

[spacecowboy_lon]

Funny you soudl mention that my prefered comenting style in perl has similarities to the one use by NAG for thoer fortran Libs back in teh day :-)

And when I write a small perl utilities I still use a program ident string that losk very like RT11 ones :-)

No who rembers the comandline argumenst for PIP (the real one not the CP/M rip off) to rebuild a floppy's directory

[mindcrime]

I'll stick to RPG/400. And none of this ILE stuff either, I want my column oriented code entry using the SEU.