Write-only language




A language with syntax (or semantics) sufficiently dense and bizarre that any routine of significant size is automatically write-only code.

A sobriquet applied occasionally to C and often to APL, though INTERCAL and TECO certainly deserve it more.





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WRITEACOURSE
write-back
write buffer
Write-Once Read-Many
write-only code
one-liner wars
TECO
write-only memory
write-through
write-thru
writing system
Wrong Thing