I thought the interesting thing was that traditionally, Perl programs are very terse and cryptic. Pike programs are in my view a lot more readable, so you'd think they would also be larger.

/ Johan Schön (Firefruit)

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2002-09-07 09:03: Subject: Re: Language Shootout Compressed Source Code Size

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On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 07:45:00AM +0200, Johan Schön (Firefruit) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:

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http://zooko.com/shootout-compress.html An interesting fact from this page is that pike programs are more compact than their perl equivalents(!).

lol, so now we go optimizing for code size too? well, optimizing for lines of code is trivial:

code-="\n";

there, done. ;-)

but optimizing for compressed codesize ought to be interresting.

greetings, martin.

/ Brevbäraren