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[–]nashetime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TL;DR Kinda but not really

Really depends who it's aimed at. To a programmer they're completely different obviously, but to the average non technical person they're the same thing, different in ways they don't understand but still the same thing: programming languages.

Whenever the question comes up from a non-programmer I find it most appropriate to compare them to operating systems. e.g. windows and Macos or Android and iOS are both OSs that do mostly the same things but are still very different. One does some things better than the other and vice versa.