Re: [school-discuss] First Programming Language

[Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net>]

On Thursday 07 March 2002 20:52, Doug Loss wrote:
> APL! APL!  The ultimate cool,
> exceedingly useless language!  Write entire programs in one line!  Use
> arcane symbols not available on a regular keyboard!  Confuse your friends
> (if you have any left after playing with APL)!

> For the humor-impaired, don't let your students even _see_ APL code until
> after they have some feeling for programming.  APL code can resemble line
> noise even when it's well-written.

From my taglines file:

    My favourite quote about APL - "I refuse to use any computer language
    in which the proponents shove snippets of code under each other's
    nose saying 'I bet you can't guess what this does!'"
                -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain, in comp.lang.ada

Cheers; Leon