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From: wojtek@power.com.pl (Wojtek Narczynski)
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Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request
Date: 12 Aug 2004 23:55:03 -0700
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Adam Ruth <adam.ruth@mac.com> wrote in message news:<adam.ruth-5C5819.06294112082004@localhost>...
> In article <cvySc.290200$XM6.53864@attbi_s53>,
>  Larry Elmore <ljelmore_@_comcast_._net> wrote:
> 
> > fabio de francesco wrote:
> > > 
> > > I can't imagine anything less readable than Perl. I see it like the
> > > exact opposite of Ada for that.
> > 
> > J is definitely harder to read than Perl. It's a descendent of APL, but 
> > replaced the special symbols with combinations of punctuation symbols. 
> > Like APL, you can write some incredible one-liners, but even you won't 
> > be able to easily figure out what it does a week later.
> > 
> > http://www.jsoftware.com
> > 
> > --Larry
> 
> 
> I think that BF wins, hands down, for the hardest to read language.
> 
> WARNING:  THIS PAGE CONTAINS A NAUGHTY WORD, 
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> http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/

Or Whitespace http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/, but those to are
joke languages.

My anti-favourite real language is M of MUMPS.

Regards,
Wojtek