Comment Re:Interesting, yet exaggerated... (Score 2, Insightful) 578
There's no difference in length between:
get the last item of line 2 of URL url
And:
open(url).readlines[1].split(",").last
I wonder what the code becomes if the URL contains a list separated by ':' or a more complex data structure.
With such an example, I can make an even better language. I'll call it dot. It has only one character: a period. Here is how it compares:
.
which in that verbose Revolution 4 language gives (approximately):
get the item 42 of the line 3465 of the structure 3 that contains "foo" in the record 6 counting from 3 of the 38990nd [...rest cut to avoid the slashdot lame filter...]
Now, my language does only one thing but it's unbeatable at it