Exactly. And yet they are profoundly different. That's my point. Obviously the things you can do in JS that you can't do in Python, or vice versa, have nothing to do with computation, so your original comment here is kind of pointless.
For example, Python has the concept of a decorator: https://docs.python.org/2/glossary.html#term-decorator. You can achieve the same thing in a variety of ways in JavaScript, but Python makes the concept of "a function that wraps another function" a central abstractions by providing syntax directly for it.
>Unless of course you're trying to argue that the difference between python and javascript, for instance, is what each is capable of computing?
The discussion with aerovistae about computation came from their initial post:
>Unless of course you're trying to argue that the difference between python and javascript, for instance, is what each is capable of computing?
If we are talking about ideal machines, there is no argument to be made that there is a difference between what the two named languages are capable of computing.
In real life I am very happy to have very extended conversations explaining things to people who don't get it, but on the internet, it's really just not worth it. I'm sorry you have misunderstood so much of this thread.
This is about how programmers can express themselves and reason about code. Not many people would choose to write their CMS in assembly.