I prefer to call it a designer's programming language. BTW, Sass does have simple control statements (if and while). I didn't cover all of the things that Sass can do. To get that see: <a href="http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html" rel="nofollow">http://sass-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.SASS_REFERENCE.html</a>