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From: Robert*@ <Robert_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: "Size" of Ada vs. C++
Date: 16 Oct 2001 01:53:04 -0700
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In article <87y9mcoz6s.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian says...
>
 
>Anyway, I think it's rather strange to judge a language by the "size"
>of its definition.

I always thought this is funny. I read that M3 designers aimed for 50 
pages, but they had to settle for 60 pages. 

Give me any language specification manual, the Ada RM for example, and 
I can print it using half the number of pages, making the language half 
as big in an instance. 

I'll simply use smaller fonts, reduce the margine size, print it 
on 11x17 in paper, use small words instead of big ones, and explain
things in more terse sentences. So, why do people measuer how big
a language by the number of pages that makes up the language reference?

Also, size is not everything you know.