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The technical criteria is generally considered to be that a language must be Turing Complete to be considered a programming language: http://en.wikipedia.org/w
by gvb 16y ago
The technical criteria is generally considered to be that a language must be Turing Complete to be considered a programming language:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness
- cygwin98 16y agoThat makes sense. For example, standard SQL is not considered a programming language, as it's not turing complete, neither is HTML for the same reason. Interestingly, some proprietary SQL dialects such as PL/SQL (Oracle) and T-SQL (Microsoft) are considered programming languages due to their turing-completeness.