Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009)
by tpetricek on Saturday September 17, 2016 @03:45PM
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Both Assembler and Haskell target native code - what you can do with one you can achieve, perhaps more clumsily, in the other. The difference between the two ultimately comes down to syntax.
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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009)
by noir-york on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:30PM
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I get the sarcasm but yes that's true for Turing complete language.
Maybe my meaning was not conveyed clearly enough; I was speaking within the context of the thread which was narrower. In practical terms, F# and C# both target the .Net VM.
A more apt comparison would be between, say, PHP and C#, or Prolog and C. All Turing complete, but its not practical to use one instead of the other for particular tasks; its highly impractical to write a device driver in PHP.