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I think APL wins hands down in being the most concise when it comes to mathematical tasks, but P6 wins at more common scripting tasks such as parsing data. Only Rebol & Red in my opinion have similar constructs to P6's native grammars. Rebol wins at being the quickest way to write short GUI applications that do useful things as it uses its GUI dialect (basically a dsl) to make it really easy....almost unbelievably so (http://www.re-bol.com/rebol.html). I'd say powershell is the most concise way to deal with Windows automation.

So really...all depending on what you mean.




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