Copyright 2004 by M. Uli Kusterer Tue, 30 Dec 1969 07:58:58 GMT Comments on article blog-english-likeness-monster at Zathras.de http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-english-likeness-monster.htm witness_dot_of_dot_teachtext_at_gmx_dot_net (M. Uli Kusterer) witness_dot_of_dot_teachtext_at_gmx_dot_net (M. Uli Kusterer) en-us http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-english-likeness-monster.htm#comment1 http://www.zathras.de/angelweb/blog-english-likeness-monster.htm#comment1 Aaron Ballman writes:
I firmly believe that there are three types of languages in the world.

Perl, a write-only language. You can write a script, and while you're doing so, it makes a ton of sense. But two weeks later, you won't have a clue how it works because you can't read any of the code.

AppleScript, a read-only language. Given a script, it's really easy to understand what it's supposed to do. However, being told to write one from scratch is almost impossible because you never really know what's going to work.

Most other languages are read/write languages. You have an equal chance of reading someone else's code as you do writing your own code.