From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s53.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Larry Elmore User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040811 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.1.185.48 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: attbi_s53 1092269128 24.1.185.48 (Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:05:28 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:05:28 GMT Organization: Comcast Online Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:05:28 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2685 Date: 2004-08-12T00:05:28+00:00 List-Id: 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