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Hell I don't need to read the whole article. I lived the life of a "maintenance" programmer way back when there were some limitations on even source code size back when single letter variable names (used for more than one purpose) and switches were used more than once using GOTO's instedad of a sub-routine (passing values back and forth) and creating comments or documentation or flowcharting was considered being a wussy.
IBM punch card style ridged column based RPG COBOL FORTRAN and throw in some mainframe JCL to surround said source code
OR
in the IBM S/36 world OCL surrounding said not free form single letter reuseable variable and switches Source code
3000 lines of WTF is this shit show spaggetti code.
I wrote one particularly big long complex program using various language "tricks" to solve some variable name problems . HELL my internal comments/docs had more llines than the actual code as I explained in DETAIL how stuff worked and what I did and how I did it. I am willing to bet if I were to get a hold of that source code to day 25 years later I would be able to decipher and understand it.
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Step 1: Write it in the Perl language... That s**t is write-only code, I swear!!!
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Write-only: You must be thinking of TECO, where literally any string can be a valid program. The Jargon File has an example of sorting in TECO. (APL is even worse; Wikipedia has Conway's Game of Life in APL2, and it literally looks like line noise to me.)
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Write-only: You must be thinking of TECO, where literally any string can be a valid program. The Jargon File has an example of sorting in TECO. (APL is even worse; Wikipedia has Conway's Game of Life in APL2, and it literally looks like line noise to me.)
The old-timers in Unix had a party game with TECO: Type your name in and see what it does.
The big thing about APL was just that they extended the character set (to hell and gone) to include all the mathematical operators for arrays and the like. Back in college, one of my professors had an ASCII version that was much more readable. (You still needed to understand the math, though.)
The old-timers in Unix had a party game with TECO: Type your name in and see what it does.
The big thing about APL was just that they extended the character set (to hell and gone) to include all the mathematical operators for arrays and the like. Back in college, one of my professors had an ASCII version that was much more readable. (You still needed to understand the math, though.)
OMG APL you are giving me flashbacks to 40 years ago (yea wacko character set and the special typeball for the IBM Selectric terminal to input your code) when I had that in college. The next semester I took LISP.
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And by semester's end the paren characters on the golfball were pounded flat.
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and all of the "strange" operators and that even 20 years after its inception the reliance on machine address locations .......
hmm... IIRC (it's been a while), the "address locations" in LISP were defined such that any given implementation could use whatever arbitrary values made sense for the underlying system. So, certainly non-portable at binary-data level, but fine at source-code level.
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