write-only code = W = write-only memory

write-only language n.

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. See also Befunge.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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