16 Nov
2021
16 Nov
'21
11:54 p.m.
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?