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Golf quote

From:
Keith C. Ivey
Date:
September 3, 2002 20:54
Subject:
Golf quote
Message ID:
3D754CDF.23930.BF74AB3@localhost
This was on one of Adam Turoff's slides at the DC Perl Mongers 
meeting tonight:

    It seems to me that succinctness is what programming
    languages are *for*. [...] In other words, the main point 
    of high-level languages [is] to make source code smaller.

See http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html for the full article.

-- 
Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>
Washington, DC



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