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From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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tm wrote:
> Simplicity of languages and their implementation got lost somehow...

The F# team at Microsoft used to advertise that their compiler was under
10kLOC.

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u