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Re: Copmaring Power (Expressivity) of Two Languages

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From: John Woods
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 12:55
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I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Smalltalk here! 

ScheduledWindow new open

opens a sizeable, moveable, collapsable, expandable window.  Now
that's expressive. :-)  But there's no reason why a suitable library
for say, C++, wouldn't result in the same expressiveness.  I guess
you've got to define the language by saying the stuff supplied to you
on disk doesn't omit any (libraries/modules) stuff you could
reasonably expect to have got.

					...John Woods
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From: eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.programming
Subject: Re: Copmaring Power (Expressivity) of Two Languages
Message-ID: <27551@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Nov 92 12:55:58 GMT
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