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What does this comment even mean? A claw hammer? By formal definitions, all 3 languages are Turing complete and can express programs of the same computational complexity.


> By formal definitions, all 3 languages are Turing complete and can express programs of the same computational complexity.

So is Brainfuck.

Turing equivalence does not imply that languages are equally useful choices for any particular application.


But we kinda don't use python for a database query over sql do we?


I use an ORM every day.




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