Wiktionary
n. 1 (context programming English) programming language. 2 (context programming English) machine language. 3 (context programming English) A language that is used in association with computers, including programming languages, machine languages, query languages, markup languages etc.
WordNet
n. a programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers [syn: computer-oriented language, machine language, machine-oriented language]
Wikipedia
Examples of computer languages include:
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Programming language, a formal language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer
- Command language, a language used to control the tasks of the computer itself, such as starting other programs
- Machine code or machine language, a set of instructions executed directly by a computer's central processing unit
- Markup language, a grammar for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text
- Style sheet language, is a computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents
- Configuration language, a language used to write configuration files
- Construction language, a general category that includes configuration languages, toolkit languages, and programming languages
- Query language, used to make queries in databases and information systems
- Modeling language, a formal language used to express information or knowledge, often for use in computer system design
- Data serialization format.
Usage examples of "computer language".
The computer began to spew out symbols in computer language and figures.
Kemeny, is a distinguished computer scientist and the inventor of a very simple computer language called BASIC.
It must have been written in some computer language that his earlier self, the old Brian, had designed for the purpose.
Both viruses and worms are programs that actually say, in computer language, ``Duplicate me.
I felt there was a need for a new kind of computer language that could meld the best of both, with something else added, too.
Basic is the first computer language that I learned, back when I was using the paper tape and the teletype.
Data and S'dar were now aboard the small vessel attempting to decipher the spacecraft's control program, which was written in a computer language that neither officer had seen before, and which Starfleet had no record of.