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by spacecowboy_lon 4186 days ago
Now if we could all get back to using real Languages like Fortran and PL1/G :-)
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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.
But it's concise, and therefore elegant, so who cares?
Not even Deep Thought will be sufficient.
But you can write Fortran in any language! :)
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

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