On 19 Mar 2006 13:03:18 -0800, "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>One thing commonly misunderstood in computing industry is the notion of >expressiveness. If a language has a vocabulary of (smile, laugh, grin, >giggle, chuckle, guffaw, cackle), Expressive for a natural language refers to the language's ability to generate precisely generate moods, and move people emotionally in a minimum of words. Expressiveness in computer languages refers to the language's ability to persuade the computer to produce some result in a minimum of words. Another measure might be how smoothly elements of the language map onto elements of the problem domain. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Java custom programming, consulting and coaching. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
