English > programming language: 1 sense > noun 1, communication| Meaning | (computer science) a language designed for programming computers. |
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| Synonym | programing language |
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| Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
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| Narrower | BASIC | A popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn |
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| C | A general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system |
| COBOL | Common business-oriented language |
| LISP, list-processing language | A flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists |
| Pascal | A programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach |
| Prolog, logic programing, logic programming | A computer language designed in Europe to support natural language processing |
| algorithmic language | An artificial language designed to express algorithms |
| assembly language | A low-level programing language |
| computer language, computer-oriented language, machine language, machine-oriented language | A programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers |
| multidimensional language | A programming language whose expressions are assembled in more than one dimension |
| object-oriented programming language, object-oriented programing language | (computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure |
| object language, target language | A computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated |
| one-dimensional language | A programming language whose expressions are represented by strings of characters |
| stratified language | A language that cannot be used as its own metalanguage |
| unstratified language | A programming language that (like natural language) can be used as its own metalanguage |
| Broader | artificial language | A language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose |
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| Spanish | lenguaje de programación |
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| Catalan | llenguatge de programació |
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