Re: Wolfram User Interface Research?
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- Subject: [mg87994] Re: Wolfram User Interface Research?
- From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:36:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Stanford University
- References: <fuhfdc$ihb$1@smc.vnet.net> <fuhrka$s88$1@smc.vnet.net>
In article <fuhrka$s88$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
> it can be tempting to chain inscrutiably long commands
> together and create an unreadable mess ---
As was the case, oldtimers will recall, with IBM's APL ("A Programming
Language"), which allowed you -- in fact, more or less compelled you --
to write incredibly powerful, but totally inscrutable single line
programs, leading to the now classic phrase "Write once -- read never",
since one day later even the original coder couldn't figure out how his
or her code worked.
> together and create an unreadable mess --- but of course, if you did
> exactly the same thing with the FullForm equivalents then the result
> would be just as hard to read, if not more so.
Don't agree with you on this -- but nonetheless will take your further
comment to heart and go off and finally learn how to use @ .
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