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Line 1: {{Short description\|Programming language useful for a wide variety of applications}} In [[computer software]], a '''general-purpose programming language (GPL)''' is a [[programming language]] ~~designed to be used~~ for building [[software]] in a wide variety of application [[Domain (software engineering)\|___domain]]s~~, across a multitude of hardware configurations and operating systems~~. ~~In theory~~Conversely, ~~a GPL program can run equivalently on a single processor or on a network. The opposite of a general-purpose programming language is~~ a [[___domain-specific programming language]]~~, which~~ is ~~designed to be~~ used within a specific area. For example, [[SQL]] was specifically designed for [[Query language\|querying relational databases]]. ==History==

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