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Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@lagrange.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: On 29 Sep 1995, Bob Kitzberger wrote:

: > Viet-Trung Luu (vluu@napier.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: > 
: > Come on.  You can't post something so blatantly arguable as "C-type
: > syntax is much more concise" and then ask for no flames.  Your
: > argument revolves around your idealization of C syntax; if someone
: > can't attack that, then they can't attack your argument.

: I didn't say that you could state your disagreement and your reasons for 
: disagreeing... Maybe I should have put an "IMHO" instead. :-) However, 
: I'd like you to show me how *concise* other languages can be in their 
: expressions.

: > Also, I don't buy the part about C "being more powerful".  No flames
: > please ;-)

: Assembly is more powerful. ;-) Actually, no language is really any more 
: powerful than any other. The difference is how accessible that power is 
: (in many languages, you have to bend over your back to do anything). Of 
: course, there is a balance between power and safety (though the two are 
: not necessarily mutually exclusive), and in the case of C, I'll admit 
: that it leans towards power just a bit too much.

: - Trung

Hmmm.... By this logic a Turning Machine is the most powerful.

AJG :-)