[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

[Sebastian Sylvan]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Eduard Sergeev
<Eduard.Sergeev at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> Andrew Coppin wrote:
> >
> > OK people, it's random statistics time!
>
> OK, my version of meaningless statistics:
>
> C++ (ISO/IEC 14882:1998(E)): 325 pages (712 including standard libraries)
> C# (ECMA-334): 505 pages (language only)
> Java: 450 pages (language only?)
> Scala (2.7): 125 pages (157 including standard library)
> Eiffel (ECMA-367): 160 pages (language only)
> ANSI SQL-92: 685 pages (language only)
> Haskell-98: 77 pages (247 including Prelude)
> Erlang (4.7.3) 162 pages (251 including builtin functions)
> Scheme (R5RS): 17 pages (45 including standard procedures)
>

Oberon: 16 pages, including table of contents and Appendix (containing EBNF
grammar).


-- 
Sebastian Sylvan
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