programming language
Definition
Coded language used by programmers to write instructions that a computer can understand to do what the programmer (or the computer user) wants. The most basic (called low-level) computer language is the machine language that uses binary ('1' and '0') code which a computer can run (execute) very fast without using any translator or interpreter program, but is tedious and complex. The high-level languages (such as Basic, C, Java) are much simpler (more 'English-like') to use but need to use another program (a compiler or an interpreter) to convert the high-level code into the machine code, and are therefore slower. There are dozens of programming languages and new ones are being continuously developed. Also called computer language.
programming language is in the Computer Hardware, Software, & Security subject.
programming language appears in the definitions of the following terms:
page description language (PDL),
assembly language,
Javascript,
code,
assembler,
C,
program,
programming code,
high level language (HLL),
natural language
and
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