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Me too. Also I am getting tired of all these "my language can do this in 4 lines vs 5 lines in your languae so your language sucks"-posts. Line-counting is a p
by globalrev 18y ago
Me too.
Also I am getting tired of all these "my language can do this in 4 lines vs 5 lines in your languae so your language sucks"-posts.
Line-counting is a pretty dumb and insightless way of comparing language power and tells far from the whole story.
- qwph 18y agoThere's a tiny kernel of truth to the line-counting argument - if you find yourself repeatedly typing the same patterns of code over and over again, and there's no way to refactor it so that the pattern's expressed only once, then yes, then you're probably using a language with weak abstraction capabilities. But yeah, trying to arrange all languages along a single "axis of power" is a pretty pointless exercise...
- globalrev 18y agoYes but you are talking about abstraction power which is ofc important. But 4 lines vs 5 lines doesn't really say that, if it did then we would all be using Perl.
- qwph 18y agoHeh, Perl is no match for J! ;) http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Studio/IdiosyncraticIntroduction http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Studio/IdiosyncraticIntroduct...