What Counts as a Programming Language?

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When we think of programming languages, we think of Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, or Python. We don’t think of CSS, SQL, or HTML. And we don’t think of Alloy, Modelica, or SNOBOL—in fact, maybe we haven’t even heard of all those. But what’s the distinction? And maybe most importantly, what can we learn as programmers from “not programming languages”

We’ll cover:

• What we can learn from questioning how we categorize things
• How to identify “assumed context,” and why it matters
• Lessons learned from “domain specific” programming languages

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