Reminds me of a quote I've seen (what appears to be a quote within a quote, 
itself):

    My favourite quote about APL - "I refuse to use any computer language
    in which the proponents shove snippets of code under each other's
    nose saying 'I bet you can't guess what this does!'"
                -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain, in comp.lang.ada



On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:39:22AM -0600, Matthew Perdue wrote:
> I remember learning in the mid-70's a language that had a beautiful syntax and
> was elegant in execution. It was very powerfull - a single statement of less
> than 10 characters could create a three dimensional matrix, populate it with
> random numbers and then invert the entire matrix. It was difficult to learn as
> it had two different modes: monadic and dyadic (some of you may now know the
> name of the language). As I remember it was targeted more towards math
> functions. Also, if memory serves, it was: A Programming Language - APL. And (I
> think) for a short time there was a compiler available on the 3000 series II.
> 
> Quoting "William L. Brandt" <[log in to unmask]>:
> 
> > Anybody read this?
> >
> > Interesting article - in essence they said that there has been an explosion
> > of languages - many needlessly - to the consternation of Microsoft which
> > would like to control software developers.
> >
> > Gosh I came from an era when there was COBOL, FORTRAN, and assembler.
> >
> > Now there's Ruby On Rails (actually a system to work on a language called
> > Ruby), C, Perl, Python, PHP, TCL, Java, Ajax, Flash (for buiilding web
> > sites), Dojo, Domo Arigato (ok, just made the last one up.....)
> >
> > Bill
> 
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