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Re:A list of computer languages with release year and category by jandrese on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @03:44PM (#21074530)
Some of these have confusing type fields. Like asterius-compiler which is a "compiler", but apparently not a programming language? It seems pretty loose at what constitutes a "computer language", with numeralSystems, cloud, non-programmable text editors, and mathematical notation among other strange entries.

It feels like there needs to be some kind of cutoff on what we're calling a language here. Maybe if it is Turing Complete? I mean JPEG might be considered a language in some ways, in that it encodes data and the computer has to parse it, but I wouldn't normally classify it as a language.

Re:A list of computer languages with release year and category by codelani on Friday September 27, 2019 @09:57AM (#21092029)
Thank you for the feedback! The categories are a loose grouping. In the future there should be a lot more columns so will be better ways to cluster and view groupings.
Re:A list of computer languages with release year and category by somecallitblues on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:46PM (#21075893)
True that. AWS is on the list as well which is quite odd.