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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:23:11 +0100
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On 14/10/2024 15:58, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Muttley@DastartdlyHQ.org writes:
>> On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 18:28:32 +0200
>> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> boring babbled:
>>> [ X-post list reduced ]
>>>
>>
>> A programming language is an abstraction of machine instructions that is
>> readable by people.
> 
> By that definition, PAL-D is a programming language.

(I've no idea what PAL-D is in this context.)

> Any assembler is a programming language, by that definition.


You mean 'assembly'? An assembler (in the sofware world) is usually a 
program that translates textual assembly code.

'Compiler' isn't a programming language (although no doubt someone here 
will dredge up some obscure language with exactly that name just to 
prove me wrong).