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Error Handling in Scan Endscan Loop
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30/01/2014 20:18:21
 
 
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30/01/2014 20:05:16
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 8
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01592536
Message ID:
01592714
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51
>I would think that APL is just a tad harder to decipher than C... APL is quite powerful -- once saw piece of code in APL to implement Conway's Game of Life -- in one line of code
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>>I remember Tamar calling C a write-only language.

I worked (full time) for thirty years in APL before starting my FoxPro career about eleven years ago.

APL'ers had two different contests -- "one-liners" where amazingly complicated problems could be solved in one line (and the winner used the fewest characters) and "broken-key problems", a special form of one-liners.

One of the unique features of APL was the ability to assign and reference a variable in the same statement; actually, to assign and reference as many as you'd like. Creating code described as "pornographic".

We described APL code as "self-encrypting".
Jim Nelson
Newbury Park, CA
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