Little Languages
Little languages serve a specialized problem domain.
- aaaa is a domain-specific language for image processing on parallel and conventional architectures
- awk can serve as a prototyping language for C, because the syntax is similar
- Comet is used to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems in areas such as resource allocation and scheduling.
- SQL has only a few keywords, and not all the constructs needed for a full programming language. Many database management systems extend SQL with additional constructs as a stored procedure language.
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