16 Nov
2021
16 Nov
'21
11:57 p.m.
Awk bailing out near line 1.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Jon Steinhart" <jon(a)fourwinds.com>
To: "TUHS main list" <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: 11/16/2021 12:54:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Book Recommendation [ reallly inscrutable languages
]
Douglas McIlroy writes:
APL is a fascinating invention, but can be so
compact as to be
inscrutable. (I confess not to have practiced APL enough to become
fluent.) In the same vein, Haskell's powerful higher-level functions
make middling fragments of code very clear, but can compress large
code to opacity. Jeremy Gibbons, a high priest of functional
programming, even wrote a paper about deconstructing such wonders for
improved readability.
Wasn't Perl created to fill this void?