Obviously you're not going to get the folks who get hung up on `let` vs `var`, but it's a spectrum.
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I find myself being impeded from becoming more familiar with a language due to its syntax all the time.
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I can't agree with the article. Picking a lang. by syntax is like choosing a car by radio presets.
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it's like choosing a car by break pad presets and whether it has airbags/ABS built in.
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what criteria would you use?
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By what the thing can do, guarantees provided, if runtime how GCs works, metaprogramming,
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isn't "what the thing can do" trivially equivalent due to turing completeness?
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I respectfully bow out of conversations on TC.
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I'm trying to understand what makes languages *different* in your view. 1/
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The expressiveness that is permitted by the semantic structure is vital. For example Haskell permits a lot, Java very little.
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do you mean expressive like this: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.51.4656 … ?
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