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Hi Short Circut, If the tasks ask us to write a program to do something then we should use a programming language and tr is not a programming language. It is a program, a utility. Just because the program can be applied to give the right answer doesn't make it a programming language in the conventional sense. If you look at the man page for tr or the [[wp:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr_(Unix)|WP]] page, it is not billed as a programming language. I am not saying that tr cannot produce the right output. I do think you go to far in calling tr a programming language as you would then allow too much 'noise' in RC. What is to stop anyone using your argument to add the Unix <code>sort</code> command to each and every one of the RC sort algorithm entries? or <code>echo "the correct answer"</code> to numerous tasks? I think that this would be a good point to make the distinction.<br>
Calling tr a programming language would leave you out on a limb w.r.t. tr's documentation and articles about tr on the web such as [[http://www.linfo.org/tr.html tr]], and [[http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/tr-invocation.html#tr-invocation GNU tr]].<br>
As for the phrase 'domain-specific language' it has little real use as it is so widely applied, and should not be confused with a [[wp:Alphabetical_list_of_programming_languages|programming language]] in this context --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 05:27, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
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