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Not in the context that this article is attempting to establish. It's a tool, with a syntax, do you think of command line programs and switches as "mini lang

Not in the context that this article is attempting to establish. It's a tool, with a syntax, do you think of command line programs and switches as "mini languages?" Would you write anything other than batch requests in JCL? It's playing fast and loose with what a "language" means and it's presented in such a way as to sell books and not inform an audience.

Jtsummers 2y ago
> It's a tool, with a syntax, do you think of command line programs and switches as "mini languages?" Some, certainly. find, for example, contains an awkward programming language in its set of command line arguments. Most others are simple enough I think a case could be made for treating them as mini languages but I wouldn't bother arguing for it. I probably wouldn't write anything other than batch requests in JCL but that's because that's its purpose, it's a scripting language for batch processing. That doesn't make it not a programming language, it makes it a specialized programming language. Is your issue that you are only considering things to be programming languages if they are general purpose programming languages? If so, we'll have to agree to disagree. Your view is too narrow for me, and mine too broad for you.