Your abstraction isn’t wrong, it’s just really bad

George Hosu
19 min readMay 27, 2020

You can read the original article on my blog.

For a programming language to qualify as such, the only thing it needs is Turing Completeness. That means, at least in principle, it can be used to solve any (solvable) computational problem.

There are features besides Turing Completeness which make it desirable, but if you tried hard enough, all of those…

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George Hosu

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