Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: Re: darcs vs tla
From: Charles Duffy <cduffy@spamcop.net>
To: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:04:50 -0600
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On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 09:25 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > 	Or, more specifically.  It's easier to understand what five lines of 
> > well written text means than twenty lines of well written text.
> 
> That's why it's easier to read Perl than C?  Because you can stuff more into
> a line?  I find Perl an absolute pest to read because there's 10 ways of
> stating anything, despite any size gains made from doing so.

Well, yes, but that's perl. I don't use Befunge as an example of a
low-level language; please don't use Perl as an example of a
higher-level one.


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