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"Programming languages which cannot perform any conditional behavior whatsoever are not metalanguages", what about a non quine avoiding constant language metalanguages? --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 17:26, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- If you have to get down to such details then it's clearly not metalanguage. Metalanguages are for expressing languages. Corbin (talk) 17:30, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Hm, I guess that makes sense. --Yayimhere2(school) (talk) 17:36, 13 February 2026 (UTC)