Re: IBM's RPG Strategy (was: Long Procedure Names)

["Paul Morgan" <pmorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had to program in APL in college.  The joke back then was every APL
program could be done in one line.  Course you could never figure out what
that one line did after you coded it.  It was always easier to just rewrite
something instead of trying to modify it.  The ultimate in throw-away code.
I'm glad I don't have to code APL.

Paul

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"Bob Cozzi"  wrote

> I remember the fourth or fifth issue of PC Magazine back in the early
1980s.
> They published a PONG game in 16-LINES of BASIC. Not 16 BASIC commands,
but
> 16 lines... jamming as much onto one line as possible.
> It was interesting then, but too confusing to work with. So more than 80
> positions is okay because they really shouldn't be a limit, but it
wouldn't
> change most programming styles (I hope).