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Stop trying to reduce the useful statement about succinctness being power into some logical rule or definition. Clearly its not a complete definition of language power, but contriving examples to break it doesn't prove an awful lot. I'm sure there exist any number of languages that are succinct but contain pathological clauses which make programming difficult.

I'm pretty surprised that this community is having such a problem with language succinctness being an indicator of language power.



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