A computer language is a formal language for humans to communicate with a computer; not a natural language. In earlier days of computing (before the 1980s), the term was used interchangeably with programming language, but today is a broader term that encompass programming language as well as other languages that are arguably not programming in nature. Sub-categories include:
- Construction language – all forms of communication by which a human can specify an executable problem solution to a computer
- Command language – for controlling the tasks of a computer, such as starting programs
- Configuration language – for writing configuration files
- Programming language – for communicating instructions to a machine, particularly a computer
- Query language – for making queries in databases and information systems
- Transformation language – for transforming the text of a formal language into text that meets a specific goal
- Data exchange language – ___domain-independent language for data exchange; examples: JSON, XML
- Markup language – for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text, such as HTML
- Modeling language – for expressing information or knowledge, often for use in computer system design
- Architecture description language – for describing and representing system architectures
- Hardware description language – for modeling integrated circuits
- Page description language – for describing the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap
- Simulation language – for describing simulations
- Specification language – for describing what a system should do
- Style sheet language – for expressing the presentation of structured documents, such as CSS
See also
- Domain-specific language – Computer language specialized to a particular set of requirements or functionality
- Expression language – Computer language for creating a machine readable representation of ___domain knowledge
- General-purpose language – Computer language that is broadly applicable across domains
- Lists of programming languages
- Natural language processing – Processing of natural language by a computer
External links
Media related to Computer languages at Wikimedia Commons
