[OT] On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2020-11-15 at 13:08 +0000, Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 November 2020 at 12:31:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > I'd say it is a matter of personal prejudice, so most likely 
> > different for each individual.
> > 
> > Where two people agree on the "expressiveness" of different 
> > programming languages, you have the beginnings of a clique.
> 
> What if I told you there's a way to mathematically formalize the 
> idea of "expressiveness" while preserving many of our intuitions 
> about which programming languages are more expressive than others?
> 
> Are you curious? If so, watch the talk--it's all in there. :)

Except that I see/hear no mathematical definition of the concept of
"expresiveness".

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Russel.
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