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When one of these articles come up, I always wonder if the authors have ever looked at APL-family languages and the people who use them, or those who have a similar ultra-compact style even with more mainstream languages; here are the most memorable examples that come to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558822

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28491562

What's the "cognitive load" of these? Would you rather stare at a few lines of code for an hour and be enlightened, or spend the same amount of time wading through a dozen or more files and still struggle to understand how the whole thing works?




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