- a simple language system designed to facilitate the writing of computer programs
See high-level language, low-level language, machine code
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pro′gramming lan′guage,
- Computinga high-level language used to write computer programs, as COBOL or BASIC, or, sometimes, an assembly language.
- 1955–60
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programming language n
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'programming language' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Algol
- assembly language
- BASIC
- C
- COBOL
- compile
- compiler
- computer language
- digital computer
- FORTRAN
- high-level language
- Java
- language
- low-level language
- PROLOG
- RPG
- SNOBOL
- SQL
- Ada
- APL
- C, c
- high-level
- lisp
- logo
- object-oriented
- page description language
- pascal
- PL/1
- syntax
- statement
