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(programming) First generation language, i.e. machine language.
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(programming) Second generation language, i.e. assembly language.
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A procedurally reflective dialect of Lisp that uses an infinite tower of interpreters
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(programming) Fourth generation language, characterized by having its own operating environment (e.g., Foxpro, Mathematica, AMPL).
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(programming) A high-level, constraint-based programming language (e.g. Prolog).
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A programming language version of Ada for CLI, spelled A#.
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(computer languages) An imperative general-purpose programming language, intended for teaching or prototyping.
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(computing) An assembly language instruction that uses only absolute addresses.
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(computer languages) An object-oriented programming language originally designed for making visual animations.
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(computing) A programming language.
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(computing) A high-level programming language mostly used for solving mathematical and scientific problems.
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(computer languages) An early programming language using mathematically derived symbols for many of its operations.
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(computing) A computer programming language related to BASIC.
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(computing) A programming language that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns.
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(programming) An extension that turns Java into an aspect-oriented programming language.
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(computer languages) A programming language in which the source code of programs is composed of mnemonic instructions, each of which corresponds directly to a machine instruction for a particular processor.
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(dated, computing) Any of several early assembly languages.
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(computer languages) A programming language from which C is derived.
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(computer languages) The scripting language provided with this interpreter.
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A family of third-generation computer programming languages (c.1964 on).
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(computing) a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
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(computing) P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code).
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(programming) A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
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An object-oriented programming language named C#.
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An object-oriented programming language, resembling Java in some aspects, developed by Microsoft Corporation as part of their .NET Framework initiative.
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(computer languages) A multi-paradigm high-level compiled programming language, that is a more advanced form of C.
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(computing) a procedural programming language of the CCITT designed for use in telecommunication switches and still in use for legacy systems in some telecommunication companies and for signal box programming.
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(computing) A programming language, adding various features to the earlier language Mesa.
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(Java programming language) The path on a file system where the Java virtual machine should look for user-defined classes and packages when running Java programs.
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A dialect of the Lisp programming language that runs on the JVM.
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(software) written specifically for the Common Language Runtime that obstructs the operating system below
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(computing) a computer language developed between 1974-1975 that used abstract data types.
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A programming language developed in the late 1950s especially for business applications.
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(computing) The lowest level human-readable language defined by the Common Language Infrastructure.
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(computing) The open specification that describes the executable code and runtime environment that form the core of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
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(computing) A special runtime environment that serves as the underlying infrastructure of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
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(programming) A subset of the base Common Type System comprising the rules to which any CLS-compliant language targeting the Common Language Infrastructure should conform.
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(computing) A multiparadigm, general-purpose programming language.
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(computing) A set of data types that are common to all .NET languages and can be shared over CLI.
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(programming) A language that is used internally by computers, including programming languages, machine languages, query languages, markup languages etc.
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(computing) computer language, programming language
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(computing) A procedural, parallel language for defining neural networks.
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(programming) That part of an assembly language used to write macros.
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(computer science) C++, pronounced "C plus plus," a high-level programming language.
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(computer languages) A programming language inspired from C++.
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(software) A design pattern used to transfer data between software application subsystems.
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(computing) A programming language that supports prototype-based programming.
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A programming language dialect based on Pascal.
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(programming) The generally accepted limit, in working with visual programming languages, of 50 or less visual primitives on screen at any given time, used to optimize for information density.
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(computing, programming) A programming/specification language that is dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation/solution technique.
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(computer languages) A programming language that analyses code also when executing the code itself.
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(programming) A scripting language based on JavaScript and standardised by Ecma International.
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An ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language.
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(computer languages) A functional programming language for creating web applications.
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(software, object-oriented programming) Synonym of factory method pattern
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An imperative, stack-based high-level programming language, used mostly in control applications.
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(computer languages) A high-level programming language first developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering, and numerical computation.
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(computer languages) A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.
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(computer science, slang) Principles of Compiler Design (1977), a notable textbook about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman.
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A general-purpose purely functional programming language with support for recursive functions and pattern matching.
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(programming) A simple script or program designed to output the text "Hello World" as a demonstration of the computer language or environment.
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(computing, of a programming language) Consisting of relatively natural language-like commands and mathematical notations which, after compilation or interpretation, become a set of machine language instructions.
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(programming) A programming language requiring a compiler to translate it into a form that a particular machine understands, focusing on user-friendly code development by automating core tasks such as accessing memory.
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(programming) Initialism of high-level language. [(programming) A programming language requiring a compiler to translate it into a form that a particular machine understands, focusing on user-friendly code development by automating core tasks such as accessing memory.]
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(computing) Any programming language that consists (mostly) of a series of commands, typically assigning values to objects; a procedural language.
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(computing, programming, .NET) A special property of a class allowing objects of the class to be accessed by index as though they were arrays or hash tables.
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(computing) a parody programming language
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(computing) A language of an abstract machine designed as an aid in the analysis of computer programs.
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A programming language developed by Microsoft that is a nonstandard variant of Java.
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(computer languages, proscribed) JavaScript, when no distinction is made between it and Java.
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(computing) Implemented in the JavaScript programming language.
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(scripting language, software) A dialect of JavaScript developed by Microsoft.
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(computer languages) A programming language suited for numerical analysis and scientific computing.
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The book The C Programming Language, which described the first edition of the C language.
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(programming) A cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose object-oriented programming language with type inference, designed to interoperate with Java.
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(software, object-oriented programming) A design guideline for developing particularly object-oriented programs that mandates loose coupling between objects.
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(computing, Java programming language) A library that works with the MIDP.
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A functional programming language with a distinctive parenthesized syntax, much used in artificial intelligence.
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(programming) A programming paradigm in which a program is given as an explanation of the program logic in a natural language (such as English), interspersed with snippets of macros and traditional source code, from which compilable representation can be generated.
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A programming language that uses turtle graphics to teach children the elements of programming.
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(computing) of, or relating to a program, or to code in which each statement corresponds to a single machine instruction
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(programming) A computer language whose source code is a somewhat user-friendly version of a particular computer architecture's assembly language, containing no provisions for portability between architectures.
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A lightweight programming language with dynamic typing.
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(computer science) Machine language instructions that can be executed directly by a computer's central processing unit.
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(computing) The source code (assembler or other language) created by interpretation of a macro
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(computing) A system for defining and processing macros.
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(computing) Any similar language used to define a programming language
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(computing, programming) A relatively small and simple domain-specific language.
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(computing) A programming language descended from Pascal, developed in the 1970s and having a module system for grouping sets of related declarations into program units.
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(computing) A programming language descended from Pascal, developed between 1977 and 1985 at the ETH in Zurich.
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(computer languages) A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.
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(architecture, computing, design) A behavioural design pattern that describes the uses of null objects and their behavior (or the lack of them).
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(computing) target language; the language of the object code, the output of a compiler (not necessarily executable machine code)
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Alternative spelling of object-oriented programming [(programming) A programming paradigm that uses "objects" to design applications and computer programs.]
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(programming) A creational design pattern that uses a set of initialised objects kept ready to use, rather than allocating and destroying them on demand.
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(computing) Any programming language that encapsulates the state and operations inside objects that may or may not support inheritance.
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(programming) A programming paradigm that encapsulates states and operations inside "objects" to design applications and computer programs.
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(programming) A programming paradigm that uses "objects" to design applications and computer programs.
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(computer languages) A general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Caml dialect of ML.
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(programming, object-oriented programming) Alternative spelling of open-closed principle [(programming, object-oriented programming) A principle that states that software entities (such as classes, modules, and functions) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.]
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(software engineering) The tendency for high-level programming languages to fall into one of two groups: systems programming languages and scripting languages.
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(programming) An imperative procedural programming language intended to encourage good programming practices through the use of structure.
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(computer languages) A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.
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(computer languages) A scripting language widely used to write Web applications.
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(computing, programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex structures.
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(programming) Code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain computing tasks.
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(programming) A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
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(computing) A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning existing objects that serve as prototypes.
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(computing) An interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.
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(computer languages) A programming language derived from Perl.
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A structured high-level programming language which was designed by IBM to be both easy to learn and easy to read.
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(computing) A programming language that uses a paradigm aiming at expressing things in terms analogous to human conceptual understanding of the World by using roles.
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(computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
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(computing) A dialect of the programming language PL/I.
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A multiparadigm programming language focused on safety, especially safe concurrency.
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A statically typed functional programming language.
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A programming language, one of the two major dialects of Lisp.
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(computing) an object-oriented programming language that uses an internal data structure based on XML.
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(computer languages) An object-oriented, dynamically-typed, reflective programming language.
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(programming) Any of a series of computer programming languages developed in the 1960s and based around text string manipulation.
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(programming) A functional, modular programming language.
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(computer languages) A programming language that analyses code without executing the code itself.
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(programming, derogatory) Any variety of the BASIC programming language that lacks good structure and encourages poor programming practices.
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(programming) An extended version of the BASIC programming language that allowed for structured programming.
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(computing) A general-purpose multi-paradigm compiled programming language introduced by Apple Inc. in 2014.
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(computing) A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the Lisp programming language.
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(computing) The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.
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(programming) A high-level, dynamically-typed programming language.
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(software, object-oriented programming) A behavioural software design pattern that defines the flow of the algorithm with the template method.
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(computing) A programming language (named after Alan Turing).
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(scripting language) A scripting programming language that is a strongly-typed superset of JavaScript.
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(computing) A scripting language used to orchestrate C++ (and other) components in robotics software
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A programming language developed by Microsoft, broadly descended from BASIC and Pascal, in which all programs have a graphical user interface.
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VPL (visual programming language); a programming language that allows software developers to generate code by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually.
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(programming) A programming language that lets users create programs by manipulating program elements graphically rather than by writing code.
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