minilanguage

English

Alternative forms

• mini-language

Etymology

From mini- +‎ language.

Noun

minilanguage (plural minilanguages)

1. (programming) A relatively small and simple domain-specific language.
   • 1997 March, Peter Brusilovsky et al., “Mini-languages: A Way to Learn Programming Principles”, in Education and Information Technologies‎, →DOI:

     The success of Logo in general and turtle graphics in particular stimulated the development of the mini-language approach to teaching the principles of programming.