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Jan-Pieter Cornet (johnpc@xs4all.nl) wrote:
... [discussion about best readable language] ...
> No, you got it all totally wrong. I think this is the best readable
> (in Tri-INTERCAL):
...
[INTERCAL code snipped - 43 lines to count to 10 nicely]
...
> Anyone else will simply be too scared to touch this code. So you can be
> pretty sure nobody changes it behind your back.
...

I report changing it to count to 15, but I guess that's a trivial change.
Similarly boring is to have it get the limit from stdin...

...
> In fact, you can be pretty sure you won't change it either after you
> wrote it, because you will probably have forgotten how the program
> works 5 minutes after you wrote it. So any luser nagging for extra
> features afterwards, is SOL.
...

Could you change it to count in decimal? Please? Pretty please?

...
> The other major advantage is... the above code took me about 3 hours
> to write. Compare this to the 10 to 30 seconds it takes to write a
...

And making one that counts in decimal is likely to take much longer still.
 
...
> PS: this article contains some strange usage of the words "best readable"
> that you probably weren't previously aware of :)
...

One thing I like about INTERCAL (any variant) is that it's the only
language I can think of where a program may legally have the words
			DON'T PANIC
at the top in large friendly letters.


...
> Linux -- "It's computing, Jim, but not as we know it"
...

Hmm, I wonder if the same goes for INTERCAL :-)


Jiri
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