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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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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