From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@justintime.com)
Date: Mon Sep 27 1999 - 13:17:39 MDT
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> And isn't there a new language running around Bell Labs?
You're probably thinking of Inferno (OS), Limbo (language),
Dis (virtual machine), Styx (protocol)... See
<http://www.lucent-inferno.com/>. It potentially could
serve in the same spaces as Java, however Java came first,
so Inferno seems to occupy a small niche somewhere in
telecom.
> 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?
Here's an attempt to quantify the number of language statements
required to implement a generic unit of functionality or function
point: <http://www.spr.com/library/0langtbl.htm>. Obviously
these are very rough guesstimates.
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