Re: Is C# any good?

From: Michael N. Christoff (mchristoff_at_sympatico.caREMOVETHIS)
Date: 11/27/03

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    "Donald Roby" <droby@babsoncourt.com> wrote in message
    news:pan.2003.09.30.11.37.15.987927@babsoncourt.com...
    > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 10:30:17 +0000, Gerry Quinn wrote:
    >
    > > In article <bl6h8p$o8u$1@news.oberberg.net>, Joachim Durchholz
    > > <joachim.durchholz@web.de> wrote:
    > >
    > >>The second solution goes against programming tradition, and it requires
    > >>a bit getting used to. However, omitting all these parentheses and
    > >>commas does have an amazing impact on code compactness.
    > >
    > > Now we just need an explanation of why code compactness is good...
    > >
    > > Gerry Quinn
    >
    > Concise and clear code is good.
    >
    > Compact code can however be extremely unclear.
    >
    > There are plenty of signatures in comp.lang.perl.misc to prove this point.
    >
    > Examples can also be done quite effectively in APL.
    >

    I had a job programming in J when I was about 16. That has to be the most
    obfuscated syntax I have ever seen in my life. J, however, was pretty
    powerful for technical programming, but I'd hate to have to debug someone
    else's code.

    l8r, Mike N. Christoff

    > And of course, such obfuscation can be done in any language.

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