'''Language-oriented programming''' ('''LOP''') is a sofetwaresoftware-development paradigm where "language" is a software building block with the stame status as objects, modules and components<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Felleisen |first1=Matthias |last2=Findler |first2=Robert Bruce |last3=Flatt |first3=Matthew |last4=Krishnamurthi |first4=Shriram |last5=Barzilay |first5=Eli |last6=McCarthy |first6=Jay |last7=Tobin-Hochstadt |first7=Sam |title=A Programmable Programming Language |journal=Communications of the ACM |date=March 2018 |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=62-71 |doi=10.1145/3127323 |url=https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/3/225475-a-programmable-programming-language/fulltext |accessdate=15 May 2019}}</ref>, and rather than solving problems in [[general-purpose programming language]]s, the programmer creates one or more [[___domain-specific language]]s for the problem first, and solves the problem in those languages. Language-oriented programming was first described in detail in Martin Wards 1994 paper ''Language Oriented Programming''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ward |first1=Martin |title=Language Oriented Programming |journal=Software - Concepts and Tools |date=1994 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=147-161 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4302-2390-0_12 |url=http://www.gkc.org.uk/martin/papers/middle-out-t.pdf |accessdate=15 May 2019}}</ref>, published in ''Software - Concepts and Tools'', Vol.15, No.4, pp 147-161, 1994.
