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Daily Archives: August 6, 2016

What is a “Programming” Language?

06 Saturday Aug 2016

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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computer language, computer languages, computer programming, computer science, language design, programming language, Turing complete

Back in the post HTML is not a programming language! I brought up the three properties required by a programming language. A discussion recently got me thinking about it again. This post is just some notes on those thoughts…

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