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Originally Posted by PeterT
I think you could say the same of APL (or at least APL/360 back in the mid 70's when I was in the habit of doing things in a single line of code; and BOY was it CODE!)
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In APL, you can do that, and I think you can still say the same thing.
An old friend is an APL specialist. These days he develops in a sibling of APL called K. He says he can deliver complete applications in the time other developers take to estimate how long the job will take after getting the specs.
Of course, APL and variants are specialized languages, and not suited for many tasks. He mostly works in finance where mathematical operations performed on on arrays are common. A spreadsheet is the sort of thing you can use that sort of language for:
http://nsl.com/papers/spreadsheet.htm
(He commented at one point about "Figuring out how to do it in 17 characters because another developer had used 20..." APL code is terse by intention.)
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Dennis