[ale] Java be damned. I've got a new language to learn

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Wed Feb 7 08:56:37 EST 2007


Pfaugh.  INTERCAL ( http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/ ) is the only _real_
system programming language.

Or of course there's always kvikkalkul (
http://www.cadenhead.org/book/homepage24/kvikkalkul/ ).

And hey, I once wrote a quine in TECO (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_Editor_and_Corrector ), back in the Day.

-- CHS


On 2/6/07, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/6/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The Linux kernel should be immediately rewritten in babbage.
> >
> >
> Babbage is full of unnecessary bloat.  Fred Brooks said that a language
> with less instructions is inherently more readable.  That's why I do all of
> my coding in brainfuck:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
>
> -Johnny
>
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