What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

[Vesa Karvonen]

In comp.lang.functional Andreas Rossberg <rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
[...]
> > Indeed, the ability to declare a new type that has the exact same 
> > underlying representation and isomorphically identical operations but 
> > not be the same type is something I find myself often missing in 
> > languages. It's nice to be able to say "this integer represents vertical 
> > pixel count, and that represents horizontal pixel count, and you don't 
> > get to add them together."

> Not counting C/C++, I don't know when I last worked with a typed 
> language that does *not* have this ability... (which is slightly 
> different from ADTs, btw)

Would Java count?

-Vesa Karvonen