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> as a justification for limiting the expressiveness of a language Is it really more expressive just because there are N ways to do it?
by darkarmani 14y ago
> as a justification for limiting the expressiveness of a language
Is it really more expressive just because there are N ways to do it?
- mcgwiz 14y agoExactly. Expressiveness refers to the realm of problems a language can idiomatically address, not the number of ways a particular unit of logic can be equivalently written. If that were true, you could simply add any synonym for "if" ("when", "whenever", "assuming", "given" etc) to a language and claim the most "expressive" language.