This is silly and counter-productive. "Power per line" is not a
useful way to measure the quality of a programming language or the
cleverness of a programmer. If it were, APL would have conquered the
world, and FORMAT would be everyone's favorite part of Common Lisp.
How much a good programmer can get done in a day (or a month, if you
prefer) is a much more interesting question. How hard it is to change
something a year later is even more interesting.
-- Scott
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Scott E. Fahlman
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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···@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu writes:
> This is silly and counter-productive. "Power per line" is not a
> useful way to measure the quality of a programming language or the
> cleverness of a programmer. If it were, APL would have conquered the
> world, and FORMAT would be everyone's favorite part of Common Lisp.
It is no more silly or counter productive than the obfuscated C
contect... It amuses and is fairly interesting...
Perhaps an obfuscated LISP contest shold be handled in parallel...
This in no way implicates me to handle it, I admit to lack of
qualification. :)
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