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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Ah, there is that evil word, "concise".  Often thought of as a holy
objective by computer scientist and mathematician alike.  The danger here is
that people often equate conciseness with clarity.  This of course is an
incorrect assumption.  Concise expressions, theorems, definitions, etc are
valued since because they allow you to refresh your memory quickly.  The
problem is that they do not make good teaching material without the
accompaniment of an introduction and explanation.  The "curly braced
languages are concise hence better" argument is malformed at best and
perverse at worst since  the mathematical symbols curly braced languages
adopted are meant for a completely different type of communication.

I know you most likely meant to include a smiley in your statement, Hyman,
but if you didn't perhaps the above will establish why many have preferences
opposite of yours.

-CRM

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:3C81DF1F.9000503@mail.com...
> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> > No, it's primarily the difference between coders and software engineers.
>
> You mean because software engineers value conciseness and economy
> of expression, they prefer braces, while coders, who get paid by
> the line, prefer the wordier languages and begin/end?
>