This was on one of Adam Turoff's slides at the DC Perl Mongers meeting tonight:
It seems to me that succinctness is what programming languages are *for*. [...] In other words, the main point of high-level languages [is] to make source code smaller. See http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html for the full article. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Washington, DC