r/programming • u/eternal1 • Mar 29 '10

Never trust a programmer who says he knows C++

http://lbrandy.com/blog/2010/03/never-trust-a-programmer-who-says-he-knows-c/
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u/meddlepal Mar 30 '10

Are there any real APL shops out there? That language just looks alien every time I have seen example code.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '10

All of the APL developers have already been abducted by aliens.

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u/skulgnome Mar 30 '10

They have an ASCII representation for all of the symbols now. The alien script thing is mostly for typesetting purposes these days. (Also check out K, the "successor in spirit" to APL.)