| one-liner wars A game popular among who code in the language (see and ). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of chosen from APL's exceedingly primitive set. A similar amusement was practiced among hackers and is now popular among aficionados. , the inventor of APL, has been credited with a one-liner that, given a number N, produces a list of the prime numbers from 1 to N inclusive. It looks like this: (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <- iN where "o" is the APL null character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and "i" represents the APL iota. [] (2000-03-19) |
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