Re:Advice From An Old Programmer
by dolvlo on Thursday June 16, 2011 @03:51PM
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When you get to the point where you understand that all programming languages are just implementations of turing machines (some more limited than others), and have much experience with a few languages, I'd say yes, you can give quite good advice regardless of the language, even if you've never once used it.
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There's a phrase for this fallacy: Turing tarpit
That's just false, though.
If you only measure the computational power of programming languages, then it is mostly equivalent (though there are some languages which are not Turing-complete, because they have proofs of termination).
If you also measure other properties, like what kinds of guarantees your language gives you, then they differ even more.