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From: Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: COBOL and tricks
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On 2022-07-26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:52:32 +0100
> Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 25/07/2022 21:55, Peter Flass wrote:
>> > No, COBOL is for the NEXT  poor bastard who has to look at your code and
>> > try to figure out what the heck you were trying to do. The more
>> > “concise” a language is, the more write-only it tends to be.
>> 
>> Ah, you've seen APL then?
>
> 	The most unreadable language yet has to be whitespace:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

Personally I favour ETA (no, not the JVM-based one).

http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/eta/doc/manual.html#7.2

Niklas
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Just because you *can* write a Java Virtual Machine in INTERCAL, that
doesn't mean you *should*.
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