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by yohanatan 13y ago
You apparently didn't read all of my comment as I mentioned Java's anonymous inner classes being used to fake lambdas near the end. And, the point remains, given any TC language L, all possible language features for all possible l
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by yohanatan 13y ago
Actually, given a Turing Machine M which outputs x when given x, then we would have the description of program T0 (for terse language T) equal to the concatenation of the [specification of the] machine M with T0, M T0. Given program J1 (fo
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by yohanatan 13y ago
One doesn't have to look far before he finds a fatal flaw in the commentary. Particularly this: "In my mind, a language construct is expressive if it enables you to write (and use) an API that can't be written (and used) wit
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by yohanatan 13y ago
Expressiveness is power and it applies to the act of writing code, not reading it. I agree that it is ideal if one's code can be read and comprehended easily by others although that has little to do with expressiveness. http:/&#x
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by yohanatan 13y ago
I don't think it is different actually. ' Kolmogorov complexity ' (which is essentially the global minimum 'essential complexity' of a particular algorithm) is specified in terms of length .
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by yohanatan 13y ago
You can be sure if you want but unless you back up your claim with some reasoning, others will consider you wrong.
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by yohanatan 13y ago
Are you sure about that? Given that any [Turing-complete] language feature can be implemented in any other [Turing-complete] language, the only conceivable difference is in fact length of implementation. In other words, it is possible to
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by yohanatan 13y ago
And what percentage of all 'rich people' is that number? I would venture that it is quite high. Certainly a much higher percentage than the number of poor people responsible for these wars (which I think was OP's point).
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That's astonishingly naive. Who sets corporate, national and international policies?
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And why couldn't they switch to an advertising-based revenue stream (like pretty much everyone else in Web 2.0 and beyond).
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by yohanatan 13y ago
In Scala, currying is not all-pervasive. You have to be explicit about it (and it's a definite pain point).
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by yohanatan 13y ago
You don't need proliferation of features to achieve expressiveness though (see Scheme or lambda calculus). Most of the cruft in Scala is due to its support of O-O and its attempt to modernize it. Similarly, C++ is a superset of C rathe
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by yohanatan 13y ago
I figured as much. I just threw them out there in case anyone could benefit (including you). :-) Also, I completely agree with the rest of your original post (the parts RE: Scheme, Go, & simplicity).
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"Haven't worked with neither" is a double negative. Also, 'resembles with' is redundant--'resembles' is sufficient. I have written both Scala and C++ at my day jobs and I would say that Scala certainly do