Which is the most powerful programming language?

Posted by nightsirc on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:32PM
from the self-post dept.

PG sad in this essay http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html that Lisp was the most powerful language. Is it still? If not, which language is now the most poweful?

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Re:Which is the most powerful programming language? by paulrpotts on Friday April 17, 2015 @08:39PM (#9397918)

I'm pretty sure Haskell has raised the bar for level of abstraction. This is at least partially because it is of interest to researchers pushing the limits of what programming languages can do. Just an example:

http://math.andrej.com/2007/09/28/seemingly-impossible-funct...

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Re:Which is the most powerful programming language? by vorian on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:41PM (#9397354)

Might as well ask what is the most beautiful color

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Re:Which is the most powerful programming language? by slater on Friday April 17, 2015 @05:45PM (#9397364)

Green. You're welcome.

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Re:Which is the most powerful programming language? by jordhy on Friday April 17, 2015 @06:32PM (#9397559)

I love C and Lisp.

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