It is write only because there are so many ways to do the same thing.   I
can write C quite competently but struggle to understand much of what my
clever young friends write
I might right a neatly structured six line loop which they would replace by
a single line of incredibly clever and totally incomprehensive code.
On 29 Aug 2016 10:36 p.m., "John J. McDonough" <mcd@is-sixsigma.com> wrote:

> C is often referred to as a write-only language since nobody can read
> it.  In truth, it is kind of my favorite.
>
> By way of confession, after converting a program written by a physicist
> in Cal into FORTRAN, I once promised myself that I would never write in
> anything but the FORTRAN-60 dialect of FORTRAN because "all" computers
> understood that.  So yeah, I'm older than dirt.
>
> --McD
>
>
> On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 14:16 -0700, John Gardner wrote:
> > ...pidgin...
> >
> > ...Local Argument #7 by Rap Replinger...
> >
> > Booga Booga!  Those were da kine days...   :)
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