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A comment on Ask HN: Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about powerful languages?.

Re:Ask HN: Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about pow... by ankurdhama on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:28AM (#11469640)
There are enormous number of factors that play a role in the success of startups and most of them are more important than the programming language they use. By the way I have never understood how "powerful" can be the property of a programming language? If you have people with good experience in X language then no matter how "powerful" language Y is, it cannot compete with that experience.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about pow... by wasdfan on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:33AM (#11469657)
Consider Assembly as a counter-example.
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Re:Ask HN: Is there evidence regarding PG's theory about pow... by AnimalMuppet on Monday April 11, 2016 @12:21PM (#11472653)
It's not. (All right, it usually is, but...)

What if my definition of "power" is "the ability to write interrupt service routines and OS trap handlers"? That is, there are definitions of "power" where assembly is in fact the most powerful language out there. It all depends on what problem you're trying to solve.

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