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By rick
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Published: Oct 02 2008 / 02:44

Programming Languages Aren’t
Generally, when we talk about programming languages, we usually mean things like, C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP, etc. I think that, over time, this narrow definition of what a programming language is has actually hindered our ability to engineer software.
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herval replied ago:

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so... programming languages are not 'languages' because specific libraries have their own jargon, which may sound alien to speakers of the 'pure version' of the language?
so is english a language, given that one can't understand a word a lawyer says unless he's also one of them...?

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