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> How can I show that my solution cannot be expressed in some other language?

This is not easy. The solution is certainly computable in other languages, and expressivity is subjective.

We can quantify it like this: a solution is highly expressive if it is given in terms of elements mostly from the problem domain.

For instance, if we have to "malloc" some memory and bind it to a "pointer", but the problem domain is finance, those things don't have anything to do with the problem domain and are therefore inexpressive.

Even if we quantify expressivity, the proposition that "this has the best expressivity for a given problem domain than all other tools, known and unknown" is mired with intractability.



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