Remove ads
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
- Scripting language – a type of programming language which typically is interpreted at runtime rather than being compiled
- 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
Remove ads
- Serialization
- Domain-specific language – a language specialized to a particular application domain
- Expression language
- 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
Media related to Computer languages at Wikimedia Commons
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
Remove ads