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# Little Languages

In his book “More Programming Pearls”, Jon Bently discusses the idea of little languages. The world of computers is filled with languages of various sorts, some large, some small. Most of us think of the large languages like Basic, C, and Pascal, when we hear the word language. But there are a number of little languages out there that are built for a few specific tasks.