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[โ€“] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Debate all you want, but the literal first sentence on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language

A programming language is an engineered language for expressing computer programs,[1] typically allowing software to be written in a human readable manner.

[โ€“] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I never disagreed with the Wikipedia lede. I only said its primary purpose isn't human-readability, and Markdown's is.