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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. 29^th 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\$ Your code does not work: document.write`EASIER COMMUNICATION${m=" MEANS "}FASTER CODING${m}FEWER CODERS`+m is equivalent to document.write([ 'EASIER COMMUNICATION', 'FASTER CODING', 'FEWER CODERS' ], ' MEANS ', ' MEANS ') + ' MEANS ', which 1) will convert all arguments to strings and concatenate (printing EASIER COMMUNICATION,FASTER CODING,FEWER CODERS MEANS MEANS ), and 2) won't include the last ' MEANS ' anyways since it's outside the function call... \$\endgroup\$

Freyja
– Freyja

2017年05月07日 18:52:11 +00:00
Commented May 7, 2017 at 18:52

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