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Here we consider what it means for one programming system to be more succinct than another. This chapter introduces the various forms of relative succinctness examined in later chapters and establishes some basic facts about these notions.

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Royer, J.S., Case, J. (1994). Notions of Succinctness. In: Subrecursive Programming Systems. Progress in Theoretical Computer Science. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0249-3_10

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0249-3_10

  • Publisher Name: Birkhäuser, Boston, MA

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