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There'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
by qwph 18y ago
There'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...