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I cannot agree more, especially reading the history of T by P. Graham, a language I have never heard of before or written a line in, but whose history I find extremely interesting from a developers perspective.

The whole "X at Y lines" argument is the same as saying "I created an OS in language X in two lines of code" by writing:

  Import OS.*;
  OS.Run();


Checkmate, one line.

  Import OS.*; OS.Run();


Compile error: only the full sequence ";\n" ends a statement.


  for(;
  ;
  )
  {
      print "I don't like your compiler.";
  }


Paul Graham is not the author of the piece you mention, it's Olin Shivers.

I was mistaken at first but then I read a fragment which said "and then I went to write scsh" which made it obvious who was the author. I wonder how people can still be mistaken after seeing this (do they assume PG wrote scsh?).




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