What makes different programming languages “better” than others? Or more powerful? Why have different languages developed over time? Are they all based on the same thing?
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Power is Work over Time.
If you have two languages and one takes a hundred times more time to develop the same feature (work), it’s less powerful.
Silly analogy aside, all programming languages are equally “powerful.” There is nothing you can do in one that you can’t do in another. The only complication is how elegant and/or fast it is to do it, though some will intentionally restrict certain approaches.
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