From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: fyi, very interesting Ada paper OOP vs. Readability
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:11:07 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-05-10T08:11:07-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5884845.1775.1336662667901.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@ynje14> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jogkdf$3tf$1@speranza.aioe.org>
On Thursday, May 10, 2012 7:47:06 AM UTC-7, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> The above made me make this little scale based on what
> little I know about some programming languages I've used.
>
> This is my scale of verbosity of a computer language.
>
> 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
>
> I think too verbose is not good. It makes it hard to
> understand the algorithm. Also, too cryptic is not
> good. There is a sweet spot in the middle somewhere.
I assume APL was so far on the left of your diagram that it fell off the page.
-- Adam
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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 [this message]
2012-05-10 16:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-05-10 18:41 ` Niklas Holsti
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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