I doubt many share your opinion that anything with a restricted grammar that can be parsed is a programming language. I think your definition is closer to, if

I doubt many share your opinion that anything with a restricted grammar that can be parsed is a programming language. I think your definition is closer to, if not identical to, what Wikipedia calls “Computer Language” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_language) For me, and I think for most, the more restricted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language#Definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language#Definitio... (“A programming language is a notation for writing programs, which are specifications of a computation or algorithm”) is closer to what makes a formal language a programming language.