OT: reference book(s)

[Kenneth Brody]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 10:54:10AM -0400, Charles Day, the prominent pundit,
> >witicized:
> >>
> >> Does this mean that MS SQL is an abbreviation for  Squiggles and Wiggles?
> >
> >Some people say that's what perl looks like.  :)
> 
> Perl isn't nearly as bad as Iverson's Language (aka APL).

But at least APL was never meant to be a "real" language, as I understand
it.  It was meant as a teaching (aka "paper only") language.

On the other hand, what other language can implement Conway's game of "Life"
in a single line of code?

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