> It doesn’t necessarily change the semantics, but it does change what kind of programs are sure to crash your machine, and what kind are going to run fast, whi

> It doesn’t necessarily change the semantics, but it does change what kind of programs are sure to crash your machine, and what kind are going to run fast, which is also an important property of programming languages. Yeah, this is exactly what I meant. The semantics of the language are the same regardless (i.e. the meanings of programs doesn’t change), but in practice it makes a huge difference.