Lightweight programming language
Programming languages that have small memory footprint, easy to implement, portable and/or minimal / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lightweight programming languages are designed to have small memory footprint, are easy to implement (important when porting a language to different computer systems), and/or have minimalist syntax and features.[1]
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These programming languages have simple syntax and semantics, so one can learn them quickly and easily. Some lightweight languages (for example Lisp, Forth, and Tcl) are so simple to implement that they have many implementations (dialects).[2]