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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>compact</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="Commonwealth-Hackish.html" title="Commonwealth Hackish"/><link rel="next" href="compiler-jock.html" title="compiler jock"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">compact</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Commonwealth-Hackish.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="compiler-jock.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="compact"/><dt xmlns="" id="compact"><b>compact</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be
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apprehended at once in one's head. This generally means the thing created
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from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an
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equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality
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or lack of power; for example, C is compact and FORTRAN is not, but C is
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more powerful than FORTRAN. Designs become non-compact through accreting
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<a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a>s and <a href="cruft.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft</i></a> that don't
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merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of
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<a href="Classic-C.html"><i class="glossterm">Classic C</i></a> maintain that ANSI C is no longer
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