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by SoftwareMaven 5026 days ago
In the end, all languages are Turing complete, but there is still a difference. It is similar to woodwork (from the small dabbling I've done in woodworking): good tools make you faster and can produce better output. You can produce the same quality, but it takes a whole lot more effort.

But more important than the tools you choose (Makita vs DeWalt, Chevy vs Ford), getting to know them is far more important. And that's where the language wars seem to fail: the recognition that a guy with 15 years of good Java experience will code circles around that <insert your language here> beginner.
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rickmode 5026 days ago
XML is not Turing complete, nor are most configuration file formats. Yet these are used to provide significant behavior. They are are programs. Programs are data. Data are programs.
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wtetzner 5026 days ago
> XML is not Turing complete

No, but it's also not a programming language. Of course, there are languages that use XML as their syntax, and many of these are Truing complete.

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