Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!newsfeed.tip.net!news.seinf.abb.se!eua.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!convex!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e1a.megaweb.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!portal.austin.ibm.com!bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!locutus.rchland.ibm.com!nordruth.rchland.ibm.com!seurer From: seurer@nordruth.rchland.ibm.com (Bill Seurer) Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Rapid Prototyping + statically-typed OOPLs? Date: 21 Jul 1995 15:21:29 GMT Organization: IBM Rochester MN Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3uoglp$ij9@locutus.rchland.ibm.com> References: <805548287snz@galacta.demon.co.uk> <1995Jul13.154620.4333@rcmcon.com> Reply-To: BillSeurer@vnet.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: nordruth.rchland.ibm.com Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.object:33874 comp.lang.beta:479 comp.lang.c++:130495 comp.lang.eiffel:9542 comp.lang.python:5149 comp.lang.sather:1995 comp.lang.smalltalk:24716 In article , tynor@atlanta.twr.com (Steve Tynor) writes: |> In article Ian.Mitchell@sunderland.ac.uk (Ian Mitchell) writes: |> |> | I think there is some confusion here as to my use of the |> | word "terseness". I was thinking along the lines of the |> ... |> | In other words a terse language is a language with very few |> | keywords (C has 32, C++ has about 48). |> |> Um. Eiffel has only 49 reserved words. Does that mean that C++ and |> Eiffel are equally "terse"? :-) And who cares how terse they are anyway? C++ is certainly NOT easy to learn because it is terse. If anything is is more difficult because of the terseness. Why is "terseness" supposed to be good? -- - Bill Seurer Language and Compiler Development IBM Rochester, MN Business: BillSeurer@vnet.ibm.com Home: BillSeurer@aol.com