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I have a comparison too: a rather different kind, but no less reasonable for this sort of game, and with all source available -- http://www.hxa.name/minilight/#comparison

It says that languages do not vary by factors of 10. Considered as pure 'lexical structure' the range is about 2 or 3 between small and large. Anything more than that must have some reason -- most probably library support.

Of course, library support is important, and quite fair to be compared in lines -- it represents real work that has to be done. But it seems worth trying to distinguish it as a library matter -- or whatever else.



Two very different examples. Simple, math-heavy things tend to be best-case scenarios for verbose languages.




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