Prize Competition Result: My Other Car’s a Porsche

Transcribed from the printed issue; not yet reviewed. Read it in the PDF of the issue, page 95

The lateness of VECTOR 2.3 seriously reduced the number of entries to this ‘bumper sticker’ competition. This had the fortunate effect of making the judging a lot easier. Twenty five little bromides were boiled down to three winners; Martyn Adams supplied

The longer the function the shorter my patience.

While Claude Henriod from Switzerland gives the following yardstick:

The number of parentheses in an APL statement is inversely proportional to the experience of the programmer.

The first prize goes to Zeke Hoskins from Canada, who warns us that

A good language with a bad editor is a bad language.

Surely he can’t be thinking of APL can he? £25, £15 and £10 (or equivalent) will be sent to Zeke, Claude and Martyn.