Subj : Re: curve for verbosity in a language
To   : comp.programming
From : CBFalconer
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 07:43 pm

"Arthur J. O'Dwyer" wrote:
> 
.... snip ...
>
> OTOH, I remember that APL has one of the most "mutable" syntaxes in
> the world, with the possible exception of Lisp (or so I've heard).
> The APL manual I was reading finished up with an implementation of
> a line-based text editor using code like
> 
>      IF LINE NOT EMPTY THEN ADD 1 TO LINECOUNT

I think you are confusing COBOL and APL.

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