Subj : Re: curve for verbosity in a language
To   : comp.programming
From : pantagruel
Date : Thu Aug 04 2005 04:38 am

Well the thing I want is a theory of verbosity in a language, like that
languages that are so verbose for doing x will always have a baseline
verbosity of y no matter if we are doing something other than x.
Obviously this is not a doable thing until one actually knows what is
meant by verbosity, I'm not sure if we have a working definition of
verbosity even though we all know it when we see it.

That said I don't know APL, but J is one of my favorite little secret
weapons. And J is remarkably succinct, sometimes to the point of
inscrutability.

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