This is REALLY a pet peeve of mine...and I just felt like writing a post about it.
I hate it when people consider a compiler a language, or a certain compiler completely seperate from the language....for example,
Several people say, "what language are you learning?"
The reply is, "I am learning the language VB"
VB (Visual BASIC) is not a language...it is a compiler, just like Borland, MSVC, etc....it is a compiler of the language BASIC, just like Power BASIC, QBASIC, FirstBasic, etc....they are all BASIC compilers, none of them are their own language...
That is the one that I hate most of all, but there are a couple other small ones, for example, Delphi.
Delphi is a Pascal compiler...it is not a language....just so people know...
Okay...i feel like i have vented steam....