• A design principle that suggests “choosing the least powerful computer language suitable for a given purpose.” Stated alternatively, given a choice among computer languages, classes of which range from descriptive (or declarative) to procedural, the more descriptive and less procedural the language one chooses, the more one can do with the data stored in that language. The rule is an application of the Principle of Least Privilege to protocol design. ← Wikipedia

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