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No, it was rhetorical, because it's obviously (to an APL-family programmer), not bad! Your cultural prejudice is showing. There are good reasons APL is written the way it is, and this example is simply bringing those benefits to C by writing it in the dense APL style. There are other APL derivatives, like J[1] that are written in C the same way. These projects are well-maintained. They aren't collapsing under a load of technical debt. The style works. To them, it's clean code. [1]: https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource

The article starts with some reasonable premises, but the conclusion does not follow. I think most APL programmers would disagree with this take. Dense code has real advantages, and naming everything has real costs that are hard to see. There's nothing magic about a "line" that suddenly allows for chunking. You have to build a parse tree in your head in any case. I'm reminded of Doug McIlroy's challenge to Knuth.[1] It's worth a read. Would you rather have 6 lines of dense shell, or 10 pages of Fabergé egg? I'll take the shell, thanks. Look at the source code for J (an APL derivative)[2]. It's written in C, but that C was written in APL style by APL programmers. Lines leverage macros and 1–2 character names, making them extremely dense. Some files have a comment on nearly every line. For an average C programmer, this code looks absolutel

Recently, I wanted to write a simple piece of code in J, but immediately found a bug. I went ahead to fetch the source to see if I can fix it. But, hell no. I couldn't believe my eyes. Is this how someone programs, really? I just can't believe it didn't go through some kind of obfuscator. Here are some samples, but almost anything in the repository is beyond me: https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/jsrc/xo.c https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/jsrc/k.c https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/jsrc/j.h What's your opinion?

Is it? https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/license.txt

J is fully opensource: https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource Most of jd's source is publicly available: https://github.com/jsoftware/data_jd

APL/J/K C-sources (perhaps by Roger Hui): https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/jsrc/a.c and other *.c files Niklaus Wirth, Verilog: http://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/RS232R.v all of ioccc)