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Easier communication means faster coding means fewer coders means ...

My father who was a really good APLer and taught me all the basics of APL (and much more), passed away on this day, five years ago. In preparation for 50 Years of APL, I found this patent letter (translated for the convenience of those who do not read Danish) for a handwritten logo. It explains a major reason for APL never gaining a large user base – a reason which of course applies to all of this community's amazing golfing languages too:

A 3497/77 Req. 29th Aug. 1977 at 13

EASIER COMMUNICATION MEANS FASTER CODING MEANS FEWER CODERS MEANS ...

Henri Brudzewsky, engineering consultancy company, Mindevej 28, Søborg,

class 9, including computers, especially APL coded computers,
class 42: IT service agency company, especially during use of APL coded computers.

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Produce infinitely repeating output of the text EASIER COMMUNICATION MEANS FASTER CODING MEANS FEWER CODERS MEANS with no newlines. You may begin the text with EASIER or FASTER or FEWER.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Only in PHP.... \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 8, 2017 at 4:18
  • \$\begingroup\$ @immibis What do you mean? \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 8, 2017 at 8:55
  • \$\begingroup\$ I mean you managed to demonstrate at least 3 PHP "design quirks" in one line of code. This line of code is an illustration of why PHP is considered harmful. \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 8, 2017 at 9:07
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    \$\begingroup\$ @immibis "mimimi don't like php" Thought we were past that point for like a decade. :-) \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 8, 2017 at 15:40
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    \$\begingroup\$ @Arc676 First, a name without a dollar sign is assumed to be a constant. Second, an undefined constant is assumed to be itself as a string. So in this code EASI0MMUNICATION1FAST0DING1FEW0DERS1 is treated as the string "EASI0MMUNICATION1FAST0DING1FEW0DERS1". Third, strtr expects an associative array (a "map" or "dictionary" in other languages), but this code passed in a regular array, so it treats the regular array as an associative array with keys 0 and 1. Finally, those integers 0 and 1 get treated as strings "0" and "1" because, you guessed it, the function needs strings. \$\endgroup\$ Commented May 9, 2017 at 14:53

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