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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. I don't
know how to achieve this level of clarity with any
of the other languages. Maybe a vector/array language can
offer something.