3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
2:03 p.m.
On 03/01/12 4:28 AM, Richard wrote:
In article<4F025772.20312.3462474 at
cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis"<cclist at sydex.com> writes:
> By comparison, the ANSI standard for FORTRAN 66 was 39 pages; for the
> USA BASIC FORTRAN derived from that, perhaps 20--of big print.
>
> Can you even imagine an ANSI standard description of a "modern"
> language in 20 pages?
Yeah? Scheme has come in at around forty. And you don't get much more
modern than that.
--Toby
It's not really a fair comparison as we expect a "modern" language to
do much more than FORTRAN 66.