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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. flohofwoe ◴[] No.44384752[source]
If you think 68k assembler is 'verbose' you haven't seen x86 yet ;)