May 15, 2003

bondage-and-discipline language

n.

A language (such as Pascal, Ada, APL, or Prolog) that, though ostensibly general-purpose, is designed so as to enforce an author's theory of ‘right programming’ even though said theory is demonstrably inadequate for systems hacking or even vanilla general-purpose programming. Often abbreviated ‘B&D’; thus, one may speak of things having the B&D nature. See Pascal; oppose languages of choice.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:56 AM

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