On Sun, 12 May 2013 14:16:18 +0200 Timon Gehr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/12/2013 05:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > On Fri, 10 May 2013 19:04:31 -0400 > > "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Friday, May 10, 2013 14:31:00 H. S. Teoh wrote: > >>> As they say in information theory: it is the stuff that stands > >>> out, that is different from the rest, that carries the most > >>> information. The stuff that's pretty much repeated every single > >>> time conveys very little information. > >> > >> This is an excellent way of looking at language design (and program > >> design for that matter). > >> > > > > Not to mention data compression ;) > > > > A program is a compressed representation of its possible executions. Indeed. And generally with an absolutely enormous compression ratio - often even infinite (when there's infinite possible executions). Or at least "effectively infinite" even if not truly infinite in a strict mathematical sense, simply due to finite memory.
