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programming language

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programming language (countable and uncountable, plural programming languages)

  2. (programming) A code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain computing tasks.
    Synonyms: computer language, computing language
    Hypernym: language
    Coordinate terms: constructed language, natural language
    • 1990 March 11, Peter H. Lewis, “The Executive Computer; The Font Wars: New Weapons Are Rolled Out”, in The New York Times‎[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:
      Font and computer-imaging technologies are arcane, and experts at the conference said that for the average user, a choice is often synonymous with confusion. “I really don’t see how creating another level of programming language is going to help the end user,” said Ajit Kapoor, a print industry consultant from Marshfield, Mass.
    • 1997 December 30, Steve Lohr, “Justice Dept. Accuses Microsoft of Disobeying Judge’s Order”, in The New York Times‎[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 June 2021:
      Even the first version of Windows 95, shipped in August 1995, had programming language from Explorer embedded in the operating system. […] Using the add-remove feature in Windows, Microsoft says, deletes only about 3 percent of programming language in Explorer, removing the icon for opening the browsing program and little more.
    • 1998 June 11, Jim McManus, “Language Called Java Transcends Barriers”, in The New York Times‎[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 April 2022:
      The Java language allows the writing of applications as a collection of small chunks of programming language called objects.
    • 2024 December 18, Daisy Fried, “The History of Poetry, From the Bronze Age to A.I., in a Single Poem”, in The New York Times Book Review‎[4], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 December 2024:
      Not being, well, dead, I don’t much enjoy that pileup of Latinate abstractions, despite their supple cadences and dense sound effects. I’m pretty sure [Ryan] Ruby designed that bit to mimic the denatured feel of programming language. It doesn’t matter if I follow every word. Not all poetry wants to achieve the same things; this too is something language — poetic language — can do.

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