what criteria would you use?
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Replying to @wycats @glaebhoerl and
By what the thing can do, guarantees provided, if runtime how GCs works, metaprogramming,
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Replying to @deech @glaebhoerl and
isn't "what the thing can do" trivially equivalent due to turing completeness?
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Replying to @wycats @glaebhoerl and
I respectfully bow out of conversations on TC.
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Replying to @deech @glaebhoerl and
I'm trying to understand what makes languages *different* in your view. 1/
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Languages are, at bottom, able to express the same computation, so that can't be it 2/
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can you say more? 3/3
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Turing completeness only says the same computations can be expressed -- not how easily
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Replying to @glaebhoerl @wycats and
It (AFAIK!) says nothing about abstraction, type systems, memory management, etc.
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Replying to @glaebhoerl @deech and
but "how easily" is also a property of syntax!
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for example, I think Rust people agree that try! was an improvement over match. Why?
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