Computer Language

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Short description: Formal language used to design, develop and make use of computer systems

A computer language is a formal language used to communicate with a computer. Types of computer languages include:

  • Construction language – all forms of communication by which a human can specify an executable problem solution to a computer
    • Command language – a language used to control the tasks of the computer itself, such as starting programs
    • Configuration language – a language used to write configuration files
    • Programming language – a formal language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer
    • Query language – a language used to make queries in databases and information systems
    • Transformation language – designed to transform some input text in a certain formal language into a modified output text that meets some specific goal
  • Data exchange language – a language that is domain-independent and can be used for data from any kind of discipline; examples: JSON, XML
  • Markup language – a grammar for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text, such as HTML
  • Modeling language – an artificial language used to express information or knowledge, often for use in computer system design
    • Architecture description language – used as a language (or a conceptual model) to describe and represent system architectures
    • Hardware description language – used to model integrated circuits
  • Page description language – describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap
  • Simulation language – a language used to describe simulations
  • Specification language – a language used to describe what a system should do
  • Style sheet language – a computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents, such as CSS

See also

  • Serialization
  • Domain-specific language – a language specialized to a particular application domain
  • General-purpose language – a language that is broadly applicable across application domains and lacks specialized features for a particular domain
  • Lists of programming languages
  • Natural language processing – the use of computers to process text or speech in human language

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