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Scuds ◴[] No.44381825[source]
This being Lisa that's -2000 lines in 68k assembler. That's about as verbose as any real PL can ever get.

For what it's worth, here's quicksort in 5 lines of haskell https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7717691/why-is-the-minim...

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1. sreekotay ◴[] No.44382858[source]
Are... are you comparing quicksort to... Quickdraw?

Lol - ok that's genuinely funny :). slow clap