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

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