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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:54:50 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>
>>  And some things are frighteningly
>> quicker to write. Now if that isn't a major improvement ... ;-)
> 
>  From the ARM-0X Introduction: "emphasis was placed on program 
> readability over ease of writing". Quicker to write is not necessarily a 
> good thing, or we'd all be using APL.

Right, that's what the smiley was trying to say. But OTOH,
if you follow Barnes' integration example, some things _are_
easier to write now, and no less safe, or less readable.
This example, explained by its author, as well your remark
about readability, as mentioned by Robert Dewar, can be seen
on video, offered on the GNAT site.

BTW, J, a successor to APL, is totally unreadable 2-character
ASCII ideography, but the ideographs can be named, leading to
somewhat improved applicative expressions IMHO.


-- Georg