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		sp332 on April 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will Wall Street require Python? I'm sure someone will apply Gödel's incompleteness theorem to the Python syntax, and complain that they want to do something that isn't expressible in python (or any other language you choose).

eru on April 19, 2010 [–]

You know that Gödel's incompleteness theorem concerns itself with provability and not with expressiveness?

sp332 on April 19, 2010 | [–]

Sure, I just meant hakan's optimism about eliminating ambiguity is misplaced.

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