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From: "Gene" <gene.ressler@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Question on Ada Expressive Power
Date: 22 Jan 2006 17:10:07 -0800
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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.