> I believe a recent interview with Ken Thompson, praised the
> "new language" (or it could have been their new OS) because
> it only allowed a single way of doing things, in contrast to
> Perl where there are many ways of doing things.
Ken Thompson is too smart to think that allowing only a single way of doing things is a good thing. Plus, I think it's impossible with a language that is a Turing machine.
> What is currently the densest language (i.e. the fewest
> lines on the part of the programmer, result in the greatest
> amount of work on the part of the machine?) SQL?
APL would be a prime contender. Also Perl, C++.
Phil