From: "Gene" <gene.ressler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question on Ada Expressive Power
Date: 22 Jan 2006 17:10:07 -0800
Date: 2006-01-22T17:10:07-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137978607.032607.315500@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137903774.826703.118170@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
I wonder why this would be interesting in other than an artisitic or
academic way. The most "expressively powerful" language ever by your
metric is probably APL. It's legandary for its "write only" character
and no longer in common use because most programs need to be read.
Haiku is expressively powerful, but one doesn't use it for general
purpose communication...
An additional difficulty is that even if you settle on a single target
machine, compiler back end quality will affect the denominator by a
factor of 2 or more, not to mention differences in the roles of runtime
libraries.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-23 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-22 4:22 Question on Ada Expressive Power pnkflyd831
2006-01-22 9:46 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-01-22 15:20 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2006-01-23 3:08 ` adaworks
2006-01-23 5:47 ` Larry Kilgallen
2006-01-22 20:51 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-23 1:10 ` Gene [this message]
2006-01-23 13:11 ` adaworks
2006-01-23 20:06 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-01-23 10:39 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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