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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

I don’t get what toy lang means?

[-] Tamo240@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

For playing with, rather than 'serious' projects

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

The opposite of system language, especially as many scripting languages have "beginner" features, like a single number type instead of integers and floats, dynamic types.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

I would call that a high level language. Like, the further you abstract from the hardware, the higher level the language.

Calling it a “toy” language implies that it isn’t useful. You have languages in there that are incredibly useful, like SQL, that basically run the entire internet.

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