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by jesseschalken 2597 days ago
He seems to operate on a very narrow definition of what a programming language is, as if symbolic languages and homoiconic languages and declarative languages and logic langauges don't already exist.

Really any language used to specify a computation is a programming language, and so "computational language" and "programming language" are synonymous. Wolfram certainly knows this. His post is just marketing.