meaning of bondage and discipline
1. bondage-and-discipline language A language such as Pascal, Ada, APL, or Prolog that, though ostensibly general-purpose, is designed so as to enforce an authors theory of "right programming" even though said theory is demonstrably inadequate for systems hacking or even vanilla general-purpose programming. Often abbreviated "B&D"; thus, one may speak of things "having the B&D nature". See Pascal. Compare languages of choice. [Jargon File]
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