What even is a Programming Language?

The legacy definitions: - hardware ISA abstraction

- some help to increase "productivity"

Modern definitions:

- planned obsolescence mechanism.

- the more complex is the syntax, the more dev lock-in and dependency on ultra complex compiler you get.

- still provide an increase in "productivity", but for trash-able software as we now know that for most software, development time does not matter compared to life cycle time.

- development comfort.