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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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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