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Mark Sims

Fri, Sep 5, 2008 1:26 PM

Somewhere out there is a complete Fortran compiler written in APL that fits on a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper... Beware, programmers have turned to screaming, blithering idiots with bits of their brains oozing out all of their orifices just by glancing at that page.

Not quite as horrid as the guys who felt I necessary to write APL
"one-liners". This elevated obscurity to a whole new art form.

D.

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Somewhere out there is a complete Fortran compiler written in APL that fits on a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper... Beware, programmers have turned to screaming, blithering idiots with bits of their brains oozing out all of their orifices just by glancing at that page. ---------------------------------------- Not quite as horrid as the guys who felt I necessary to write APL "one-liners". This elevated obscurity to a whole new art form. D. _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together—at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/

LJ

Lux, James P

Fri, Sep 5, 2008 1:43 PM

APL..
Maybe they're talking about things like the famous 6000 lines of ECAP in FORTRAN IV done in APL in 600 lines by a grad student, etc.
(not surprising.. ECAP is lots of matrix math, which is VERY dense in APL.. Mind you, today Matlab would do almost the same)

See http://www.sigapl.org/whyapl.htm (scary thing is, I've actually used APL on both the STSC timesharing systems and the IBM 5100)
The following statement appears there:
Several people have written BASIC compilers in APL.

I also like this one, in the FAQ-like section at the end:
DP managers will lose control if 'everybody' does his or her own thing by having individual access to computers

On 9/5/08 6:26 AM, "Mark Sims" holrum@hotmail.com wrote:

Somewhere out there is a complete Fortran compiler written in APL that fits on a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper... Beware, programmers have turned to screaming, blithering idiots with bits of their brains oozing out all of their orifices just by glancing at that page.

Not quite as horrid as the guys who felt I necessary to write APL
"one-liners". This elevated obscurity to a whole new art form.

D.

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APL.. Maybe they're talking about things like the famous 6000 lines of ECAP in FORTRAN IV done in APL in 600 lines by a grad student, etc. (not surprising.. ECAP is lots of matrix math, which is VERY dense in APL.. Mind you, today Matlab would do almost the same) See http://www.sigapl.org/whyapl.htm (scary thing is, I've actually used APL on both the STSC timesharing systems and the IBM 5100) The following statement appears there: Several people have written BASIC compilers in APL. I also like this one, in the FAQ-like section at the end: DP managers will lose control if 'everybody' does his or her own thing by having individual access to computers On 9/5/08 6:26 AM, "Mark Sims" <holrum@hotmail.com> wrote: Somewhere out there is a complete Fortran compiler written in APL that fits on a single 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper... Beware, programmers have turned to screaming, blithering idiots with bits of their brains oozing out all of their orifices just by glancing at that page. ---------------------------------------- Not quite as horrid as the guys who felt I necessary to write APL "one-liners". This elevated obscurity to a whole new art form. D. _________________________________________________________________ See how Windows Mobile brings your life together-at home, work, or on the go. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093182mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.

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Bob Paddock

Sun, Sep 7, 2008 1:57 PM

Beware, programmers have turned to screaming, blithering idiots with bits of their brains
oozing out all of their orifices just by glancing at that page.

Worse than writing a Web Server in the language "BF"? The "B" stands
for Brain, and I'm not going to put the "F" on a family oriented list like
this one.

The following program prints "Hello World!" and a newline to the screen,
from the Wikipedia entry:

++++++++++
[

+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<-

] this loop sets the next four cells to 70/100/30/10

++. print 'H'
+. print 'e'

+++++++. 'l'
. 'l'
+++. 'o'

++. space

<<+++++++++++++++. 'W'

. 'o'

+++. 'r'
------. 'l'
--------. 'd'

+. '!'
. newline

That is not a badly formated message, that is what the cost is...
At least it doesn't require a custom keyboard to code it.

> Beware, programmers have turned to screaming, blithering idiots with bits of their brains > oozing out all of their orifices just by glancing at that page. Worse than writing a Web Server in the language "BF"? The "B" stands for Brain, and I'm not going to put the "F" on a family oriented list like this one. The following program prints "Hello World!" and a newline to the screen, from the Wikipedia entry: ++++++++++ [ >+++++++>++++++++++>+++>+<<<<- ] this loop sets the next four cells to 70/100/30/10 >++. print 'H' >+. print 'e' +++++++. 'l' . 'l' +++. 'o' >++. space <<+++++++++++++++. 'W' >. 'o' +++. 'r' ------. 'l' --------. 'd' >+. '!' >. newline That is not a badly formated message, that is what the cost is... At least it doesn't require a custom keyboard to code it.

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