>> "Or would you argue that, say, x86 machine-language is just as expressive as say, Java? According to your turing-completeness argument that would seem like a

>> "Or would you argue that, say, x86 machine-language is just as expressive as say, Java? According to your turing-completeness argument that would seem like a yes." Yes. I absolutely would, and I've written about the same amount of x86 code as I have Java. They are each suited better to different tasks, but they're both just as expressive for me.