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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:27:09 +0200
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On 14/10/2024 18:23, Bart wrote:
> 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.
> 

I took "an assembler" to mean "an assembler language", which is a common 
alternative way to write "an assembly language".  And IMHO, any assembly 
language /is/ a programming language.

> '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).
> 

I tried, just to please you, but I couldn't find such a language :-)