to be, or not to be, a programming language

[mathematician]

well, i was working on macros for the fasm assembler, mainly for development on my operating system, and some people consider a script or include library to be a programming language, how can a bunch of macros be a programming language?

I'd say it becomes a programming language in its own right when the syntax is changed sufficiently. When someone good at assembler would stop felling like "this is Assembler with GhostXoPCorp-o-Macros", and start feeling like "this is hostXoPCorp-o-Language. Funny thing is it doesn't need a compiler on its own, only FASM and this here include library."

I see some programs supposedly written in assembly language, but using predefined macros, and I think, that's assembly language?

[VolTeK]

asm i got it, what i made is an include library not a programming language

[Coty]

@berkus: that is kinda neat, But it looks to be very limited to its commands