{{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]]sdomai, across a multitude of hardware configurations and operating systems. In theory, 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, [[Query language|querying databases]]. For example, SQL was designed for [[Query language|querying databases]].
