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"Adam J. Thornton" wrote:

> In article <3B297D2E.61FF903B@warwick.net>, jjkc  <jjkc@warwick.net> wrote:
> >What's the worst? C?
> INTERCAL is certainly worse.

This is true, although "classical" INTERCAL doesn't have strings at all, so
that's kind of cheating...


> So is Brainf*ck.

Actually, BrainF*** is pretty easy, once you get the hang of it.  Granted,
there's a steep learning curve, and you don't have any primitives, but the
whole of dataspace is pretty much a string...


