What is a "toy" language?
noodle: toy language is what you call a language that is incomplete or without a large enough featureset to be truly useful in solving problems or creating applications.  or, a heavily pruned down version of a normal language.you'll mostly see toy languages in academia.  i had to learn one for my compiler class.people referring to any widely used language as a toy languages are either trying to insult it, look down their nose at it, or are idiots.  or, perhaps all 3.