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Ah yes, this is famously why we only have one programming language.



Maybe not, but most of them are expecting users to have English in mind to some degree, plus the top ten most used are definitely all procedural paradigm plus some encapsulation such as OOP, as opposed to something like prolog.


The point I was snidely trying to make is that certain languages make certain representations and tasks easier than others. Ease, convenience, and representation length are probably more useful metrics than "possible" in the context of this discussion.




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