[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

[Henning Thielemann]

Eduard Sergeev schrieb:
> 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)
>   
Modula-3 is advertised for needing only 60 pages for the language 
definition.