From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Sep 27 1999 - 07:50:39 MDT
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.
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