Re:The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
by quiq on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:29PM
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> Syntactic complexity is linear with expressive power
Have you taken a serious look at a lisp? You might be pleasently surprised. Everything that can be said about lisp has probably already been said, but I'd argue that sexprs have a much higher expressive/complexity ratio than say the C++ grammar.
Have you taken a serious look at a lisp? You might be pleasently surprised. Everything that can be said about lisp has probably already been said, but I'd argue that sexprs have a much higher expressive/complexity ratio than say the C++ grammar.
Somewhat relative xkcd[1]
[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/224:_Lisp