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mini- +‎ language

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minilanguage (plural minilanguages)

  1. (programming) A relatively small and simple domain-specific language.
    • 1997 March, Peter Brusilovsky et al., “Mini-languages: A Way to Learn Programming Principles”, in Education and Information Technologies[1], →DOI:
      The success of Logo in general and turtle graphics in particular stimulated the development of the mini-language approach to teaching the principles of programming.