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PROGRAMING LANGUAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does programing language mean? 

PROGRAMING LANGUAGE (noun)
  The noun PROGRAMING LANGUAGE has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a language designed for programming computersplay

  Familiarity information: PROGRAMING LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROGRAMING LANGUAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a language designed for programming computers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

programing language; programming language

Hypernyms ("programing language" is a kind of...):

artificial language (a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "programing language"):

algorithmic language (an artificial language designed to express algorithms)

assembly language (a low-level programing language; close approximation to machine language)

computer-oriented language; computer language; machine-oriented language; machine 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 language; target language (a computer language into which something written in another computer language is to be translated)

object-oriented programing language; object-oriented programming language ((computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure)

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)

LISP; list-processing language (a flexible procedure-oriented programing language that manipulates symbols in the form of lists)

logic programing; logic programming; Prolog (a computer language designed in Europe to support natural language processing)

COBOL (common business-oriented language)

C (a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system)

BASIC (a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use)

Pascal (a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach)


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