Received: from spf1.us4.outblaze.com (spf1.us4.outblaze.com [205.158.62.23]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iABB9MDG028433 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:09:23 GMT Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by spf1.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0846953C44 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 11:09:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CSCxq-0004bd-Rf for migo@homemail.com; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:18:07 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CSCwt-0004aN-P8 for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:17:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CSCws-0004ZY-6b for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:17:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CSCwr-0004ZU-Tt for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:17:06 -0500 Received: from [62.233.46.148] (helo=xlate.ouvaton.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CSCnv-0005v6-Oi for gnu-arch-users@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:07:51 -0500 Received: from jack.ou-data.net (jack.ou-data.net [192.168.2.11]) by xlate.ouvaton.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3909678FB for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:07:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from meuh by jack.ou-data.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CSCnu-00015L-00 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:07:50 +0100 To: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: darcs vs tla References: <20041107234609.7bf0abfe@delta.hk.office.outblaze.com> <1099995711.2900.84.camel@stargate> <20041110204049.GD5978@suffields.me.uk> <20041111093245.GY721@vagabond> From: Yann Droneaud Organization: Meuh Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:07:50 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20041111093245.GY721@vagabond> (Jan Hudec's message of "Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:32:45 +0100") Message-ID: <87mzxor6d5.fsf@jack.ou-data.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-BeenThere: gnu-arch-users@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: a discussion list for all things arch-ish List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Errors-To: gnu-arch-users-bounces+migo=homemail.com@gnu.org Status: RO Content-Length: 1414 Lines: 39 Jan Hudec writes: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 20:40:49 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 10:21:51AM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: >> > I also agree that programs look much nicer and easier to >> > write in a high level language. >> >> This is also a feature of programmers, not languages. > > There is an interesting paper by Paul Graham. He has a hypothesis, that > a programmer can write about the same number of tokens in a unit of > time, no matter what language he is writing them in (or little matter). > > Now that would mean, that programming is more efficient in a higher > language. The higher here means it can do more work with one statement. > "it can do more [improper, invalid, faulty, bad] work with one statement" Higher languages makes bigger mistakes, low level languages makes a lot of small mistakes, so the results are generally the same. Only the programmer and his mind make a difference. Regards. -- Yann Droneaud (aka Meuh) http://meuh.org/ | http://sherkan.tuxfamily.net/~meuh/ Une vache perdue sur Internet | A cow lost in the Internet 1024D/BEA43321 5D91 B5B0 5137 B8FE 6882 FE19 CAA0 6F05 BEA4 3321 _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/