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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 21:41:00 +0300
Date: 2012-05-10T21:41:00+03:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAC0BBC.9050409@tidorum.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4fabe79e$0$9518$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>

On 12-05-10 19:06 , Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> On 10.05.12 16:47, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
>> On the left is the least verbose, and on the right is
>> the most verbose. Feel free to edit and add/adjust as
>> you feel. ofcourse this is all subjective and for fun.
>>
>>
>> perl   Matlab    pascal PLI  f77    f95  Java cobol
>> |       |         |      |    |      |     |    |
>> <-----------------------+------------------------>
>>   |     |    |       |            |     |    |
>>   |     c  scala    c++         SNOBOL HTML Ada
>>   |
>> Mathematica
>
> Cute! In all fairness, though, how can this Cobol
> statement count as verbose?
>
>    ADD a b c  TO  d e f  GIVING  g h i
>
> I find this one-liner highly readable, too.

And how do you read it? I don't remember such an ADD format, with more 
than one identifier between "to" and "giving", and it does not appear in 
the OpenCOBOL Programmer's Guide at
http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/OpenCOBOL%20Programmers%20Guide.pdf.

Just splitting hairs, of course...

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-10 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-09 13:06 fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-09 13:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-09 13:36   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-09 13:39     ` Patrick
2012-05-09 13:55       ` Egil Høvik
2012-05-10  2:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10  6:33   ` Simon Wright
2012-05-12  0:37     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-30  2:09       ` BrianG
2012-05-30  7:29         ` Niklas Holsti
2012-05-30  7:54           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-30  7:59             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-30 12:45               ` stefan-lucks
2012-05-30 13:12                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-30 19:11           ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-05-30 23:00           ` BrianG
2012-06-21 16:06             ` Randy Brukardt
2012-05-10  8:43   ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-05-15  6:16     ` Simon Wright
2012-05-10 11:46   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-10 14:23     ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 14:47       ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10 15:11         ` Adam Beneschan
2012-05-10 16:06         ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 18:41           ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2012-05-11  8:20             ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 20:11           ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10 21:17             ` tmoran
2012-05-10 18:07         ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-05-11  7:32         ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-05-10 12:31 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-05-10 13:32 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-05-10 13:38   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-10 23:42     ` Zhu Qun-Ying
2012-05-11  6:05   ` J-P. Rosen
2012-05-11  3:01 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-11  7:14   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-11  7:32     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-11  7:58       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-13  3:11         ` NatarovVI
2012-05-13 10:03           ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-16 15:00             ` NatarovVI
2012-05-16 18:01               ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-21 16:35                 ` NatarovVI
2012-05-21 17:56                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-23 16:01                     ` NatarovVI
2012-05-23 16:12                       ` NatarovVI
2012-05-16 15:31     ` NatarovVI
2012-05-16 16:40       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-21 17:23         ` NatarovVI
2012-05-21 18:53           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-21 19:21             ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-05-23 17:59               ` NatarovVI
2012-05-23 18:45                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-23 17:39             ` NatarovVI
2012-05-23 18:39               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-11  3:09 ` NatarovVI
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