What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> writes:

[...]

| (Yes, I'm being silly. But the point is very serious. Even with less
| silly examples, whether a language or subset is "safe" entirely
| depends on what you define to be "safe", and these definitions tend to
| vary vastly across language communities.)

Yes, I know.  I hoped we would escape sillyland for the sake of
productive conversation.

-- Gaby