Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

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:

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A programming language is an abstraction of machine instructions that is
readable by people.

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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 :-)