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From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker)
Subject: Re: Comparing productivity: LisP against C++ (was Re: Reference Counting)
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 07:39:53 GMT
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In article <D15BJ1.5Gq@research.att.com> ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>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.

I know. :-(  It weights 2 lbs., 12 oz.  If you drop it out of a window
onto someone, it would probably kill them.

It _is_ in WWW hypertext on the Inet, though, at CMU.  Check it out.

Henry Baker
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