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From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Subject: Re: Comparing productivity: LisP against C++ (was Re: Reference Counting)
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In article <3d86vh$1na@Mars.mcs.com> tmoog@MCS.COM (Thomas H. Moog) writes:

> There is a way to measure language complexity to one significant
> digit: the size of a good manual for the language.  The essentials for
> SmallTalk are covered in about 100 pages of the blue book by Goldberg
> (the rest is the "standard library" and details of implementation).
> The C++ ARM is about 400 pages and is much more difficult reading then
> Goldberg.  How large is a Lisp manual ?

The Common Lisp manual is about 1,100 pages.
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				--Andrew Koenig
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