[OT] On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages
Petar
Petar
Mon Nov 16 16:40:56 UTC 2020
On Monday, 16 November 2020 at 16:37:07 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
> On 11/14/20 8:01 PM, Paul Backus wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I enjoyed the talk and like the principles shown.
>
> But I think this doesn't really answer the question of which
> language is more expressive than another, because they are
> completely separate languages. It's more of a test as to
> whether a language feature adds expressiveness to an existing
> language (that is, when language A is equivalent to language B
> + feature F).
>
> And the bar is pretty high. I don't know if there are many
> "expressive" features left to add to D if we go by this
> definition unless we go AST-macros.
>
> -Steve
string mixins kind of ruined this distinction for us - even AST
macros would have a hard time proving that they can't be
expressed via (mixin(genCode(params))) :D
Anyways, Paul, thanks for sharing the talk, I also enjoyed
watching it!
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