>I worked (exclusively) for 30 years in a long-since dead language, APL.
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Although I only worked in it for about 5 years it was by far my favorite language. We lived in a different world from the "mainstream" programmers. Office attire was jeans and a field jacket and everybody had a suit which was brought out whenever we dealt with a client.



>It was the most succinct, abstruse, impossible to read language you've ever seen.
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>We used to say that the code was self-encrypting -- you couldn't read it yourself after five minutes.
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Somebody once showed me a piece of code that looked REALLY neat. Unfortunately nobody knew what it did. He described it to me as "A solution in search of a problem."