write-only language

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write-only language - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  

write-only language - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.