toy language
SOFTWARE LANGUAGE NOT AIMED FOR SERIOUS USE
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<
language> A language useful for instructional purposes or as
a proof-of-concept for some aspect of computer-science theory,
but inadequate for general-purpose programming.
Bad Things
can result when a toy language is promoted as a general
purpose solution for programming (see {bondage-and-discipline
language}); the classic example is
Pascal. Several
moderately well-known formalisms for conceptual tasks such as
programming
Turing Machines also qualify as toy languages in
a less negative sense.
See also
MFTL.
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Jargon File]
(1995-05-09)