GE> A languaGE useful for instructional purposes or as a proof-of-concept for some aspect of computer-science theory, but inadequate for GEneral-purpose programming. Bad Things can result when a toy languaGE is promoted as a GEneral purpose solution for programming (see {bondaGE-and-discipline languaGE}) the classic example is {Pascal}. Several moderately well-known formalisms for conceptual tasks such as programming Turing Machines also qualify as toy languaGEs in a less negative sense. See also MFTL. [Jargon File] (1995-05-09)