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by kibwen 6 days ago
The notion of Turing completeness isn't relevant here, it encompasses almost none of the interesting distinctions between programming languages in practice. And yes, simplicity alone isn't what matters here, or else we'd all be applauding Brainfuck. What matters is strength:weight ratio, or the interesting expressiveness and abstractive power of your language weighed against its surface area.