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Original Post: RE: It's not about one-liners
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I agree with Cedric.
The "best" programming language, doesn't mean the one that creates the lowest wc -l.
I actually always found myself writing quite "verbose" Perl code, for example.
However, I do feel that languages such as Ruby, Groovy, and yes... even Perl allow me to get closer to the zen of "expressing everything I want, and need to get across... but not more". Every operator/method tells me a lot.
For example. Compare the code for taking out some text from a string:
Groovy:
name = "Dion 'Sick Boy' Almaer"
name -= "'Sick Boy'"
and in Java? ergh.
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