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Comment by dnautics

3 hours ago

no thats not the definition of more expressive. more expressive means the language can encode more programmer intent without making a dog's breakfast of the code.

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kibwen  3 hours ago

Now we're just having a semantic argument over the word "expressiveness", which is not especially interesting; see https://chrispenner.ca/posts/expressiveness-spectrum . My argument above remains true regardless of the terms you choose to use.

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