> as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.

Can you even read what you wrote several years ago?

dylan604 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wait, isn't that what they say about perl?

	▲	philipov an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, perl is considered write-only because it is a mess of features that allow unhygienic programming habits to flourish - it is full of hard-to-trace magical behavior. Completely different than APL, which has had perl's write-only label applied to it by programmers not used to reading terse mathematical notation.

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gerdesj 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

40 years ago (at school) I generally wrote in ink - edged and straight nibs, blue and black ink because I liked it. I learned several formal styles as well as my idiosyncratic efforts. I did have biros and fibre tips etc available. I had loads of choice. My parent's generation was probably the last of the ink and nib first users.