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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
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Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada?
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In article <3blinp$8dm@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

  > Also of course totally irrelevant, counting the number of characters
  > on the page is NOT the way to determine the best language (otherwise we
  > would automatically conclude that a language that disallowed comments
  > was best :-)

    Nonsense! If you programmed in APL, you would know that APL
permits comments. 

   (And of course APL has a special character to begin comments... ;-)

   (For those not familiar with APL, it is an extremely terse
programming language.  For example, I know of three extremely short
programs which the user to enter a number, and print all primes less
than or equal to that number.  Each implements a different definition
of prime numbers, and the shortest which is sixteen charactes long, is
based on Wilson's theorem.  The "standard" software engineering
approach for APL is called throw-away coding.  The idea is to write
everything as one-line functions, with several lines of comments in
each which explain the interface and intended use.  If you need to
modify the function, you begin by throwing away the code.)

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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