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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 30, 2022, at 4:49 PM, Brian E Carpenter <<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" class="">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 31-Mar-22 05:29, McMillan, William W wrote:<br class="">...<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Personal note: Prolog is still the most powerful programming language ever developed. I found that the number of lines of C or Java code to the number of lines of Prolog code to implement the same functionality (exclusive of the UI) was 10 to 100, depending on the complexity. But good use of Prolog requires extensive rewiring of the programmer's brain to do anything but simple stuff.<br class="">(OK, OK, APL fans, I'll admit you have the same advantage for numerical <br class=""></blockquote>apps!)<br class=""><br class="">SNOBOL4 also had the reputation for economy of lines of code, and of obscure coding. Easily a factor 10 compared to Algol, and 20 compared to PL/I, for string processing, if I recall correctly. SNOBOL still has its fans, apparently.<br class=""><br class="">Regards<br class=""> Brian Carpenter<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org" class="">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/" class="">http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org" class="">http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>