▲ 173 ▼ I created the weirdest political compass (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev 114 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (3 children) I don’t get what toy lang means? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Tamo240@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago For playing with, rather than 'serious' projects permalink fedilink source parent [–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world [S] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago For playing with, rather than 'serious' projects permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world [S] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child) 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 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. permalink fedilink source parent
