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I feel like someone should note the irony of finding this comment on HN, which is implemented in Arc: a language that was explicitly designed to be as terse as
by bkirwi 12y ago
I feel like someone should note the irony of finding this comment on HN, which is implemented in Arc: a language that was explicitly designed to be as terse as possible.
http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html
- olavk 12y agoTerseness at different levels. Avoiding boilerplate syntax is good. Obscure abbreviated names of functions and operators just to save a few keystrokes is bad. Btw. the definition of terseness in the essay seem specifically chosen to favor Lisp style languages. 2 + 3 * 4 is clearly terser than (+ 2 (* 3 4)) But by counting "leafs" like he does (rather than say tokens), they get the same terseness-count.
- radmuzom 12y agoDon't know anything about Arc, but is there is anything terser than APL?