From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 02:46:15 MDT
[REPEAT DUE TO NETWORK FAILURE]
It appears as if Robert J. Bradbury <bradbury@www.aeiveos.com> wrote:
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|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?
Do you use the word "work" to refer to some task of interest to an
external unit (e.g. a human)?
If NO:
Answer: A small assembly program executing an eternal loop.
If YES:
Some languages allow you to write any-length one-liners.
Any language which allows subroutines in any other language
can create extremely short, extremely high-level programs.
So... Shell scripts, C code, PERL code, etc. can let the
machine run for years performing some tedious task.
The small programs called OS loaders load a subroutine into
memory and executes it, thus starting an operating system.
If these answers do not satisfy you, you might have had some
unstated assumptions. If so, state them.
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