Andreas' practical language comparison

[Peter Hansen]

GerritM wrote:

> I really would like to see the linecount. I do belive that it is one of the
> indicators of the power of the language and its batteries. Somehow it would
> be nice to have a figure for "readability", but I don't have a clue how to
> generate such a figure in an automatic way. Maybe you need some panel of
> experts that gives a readability figure?

I'd reply to this, but as there is already a discussion on
comp.lang.misc (as Andreas said) it would probably be
silly to continue one in parallel here...

-Peter