Re: Best/Densest languages [was RE: PROGRAMMING: Free Tools]

Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 06:50:39 -0700 (PDT)

On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Eugene Leitl wrote:

> Robert J. Bradbury writes:
> > 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 or Lisp or Forth. Also, without definition, greatest amount of
> work is meaningless. Is for(;;); work?
>
DEBUGGING ENGLISH LANGUAGE OPTION ON

s/amount of work on the part/amount of *useful* work not \ involved in heating your home or office and that generally \ contributes to decreasing the amount of entropy in the universe/

DEBUGGING ENGLISH LANGUAGE OPTION OFF

I expect Greg to debug my statements once in a while, but now even the programmers want to get in on the game...

R.