On 02/08/2016 18:54, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 02:56 am, BartC wrote:
(And I expect that next they will eliminate languages altogether. All
you need is some way of specifying a sequence of calls to library
functions and sprinkling around some control statements;
That would be called "a language".
No, it wouldn't be given its own identity. And it probably couldn't be
used without that specific tool. It would be more like a file format, if
the details are even exposed when the format is proprietary.
A traditional language exists as text and can be stored as plain text.
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