toy language is what you call a language that is incomplete or without a large enough featureset to be truly useful in solving problems or creating applications

toy language is what you call a language that is incomplete or without a large enough featureset to be truly useful in solving problems or creating applications. or, a heavily pruned down version of a normal language. you'll mostly see toy languages in academia. i had to learn one for my compiler class. people referring to any widely used language as a toy languages are either trying to insult it, look down their nose at it, or are idiots. or, perhaps all 3.