On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:57:46 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > perhaps the following is the most preferred? > > COMPUTE YEAR MODULO 4 EQUALS 0 AND YEAR MODULO 100 NOT EQUAL TO ZERO OR > YEAR MODULO 100 EQUAL to 0 > > IOW COBOL is desirable?
If the only choices are COBOL on one hand and the mutant offspring of Perl and APL on the other, I'd vote for COBOL. But surely they aren't the only options, and it is possible to find a happy medium which is neither excessively verbose nor painfully, cryptically terse. Remember that we're talking about general purpose programming here. There are domains which favour terseness and a vast number of symbols, e.g. mathematics, but most programming is not in that domain, even when it uses tools from that domain. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
