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I created the weirdest political compass (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days 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.