Subj : Re: curve for verbosity in a language
To   : comp.programming
From : osmium
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 06:39 am

"pantagruel" writes:

>A lot of languages can seem 'overly' verbose. If you worry that I might
> be discussing your favorite language, I probably am. One thing I have
> noticed is you never seem to have a language in which the simple
> examples of programs in the language are very verbose but the verbosity
> diminishes as one makes the program more complicated.
>
> Can anyone think of a language where verbosity in fundamentals of the
> program leads to succinctness in the higher levels.
>
> of course verbosity is bound to be relative in nature.

APL is the language that comes to mind that might be along the lines of what 
you want.

I assume you mean: the *added* verbosity diminishes as one makes ......

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