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Comment author: gwern 20 June 2009 07:44:42PM 1 point [-]

The only way to see how complicated a language is is by a complete description of it - an implementation. And the complexity of an implementation depends on the kind of CPU it must run on, and the complexity of a CPU architecture depends on the laws of physics it must exist in.

Fortunately, C and PHP target the same computers.

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