From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,189a28164788ed2e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-06 00:05:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Computer Language Shootout References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 08:05:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 1005033956 24.7.82.199 (Tue, 06 Nov 2001 00:05:56 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 00:05:56 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15902 Date: 2001-11-06T08:05:56+00:00 List-Id: >> I coded it using the Claw.Sockets library and, after pretty-printing >> to normalize white space, the result is 60 lines. >Isn't it true though that, given a long enough SLOC support from the >compiler, any Ada program can be written on a single line? Changing variable names to single letters and dropping unrequired white space, the whole program fits in about 1200 characters. With Gnat's 255 line length limit, that's under 5 lines. If that's the metric, this code is the winner. ;)