Computer language
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Examples of computer languages are:
- Programming language, a formal language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer
- Command language, a language used to control the tasks of the computer itself, such as starting other programs
- Machine code or machine language, a set of instructions executed directly by a computer's central processing unit
- Markup language, a grammar for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text
- style language, is a computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents
- Configuration language, a language used to write configuration files
- Construction language, a general category that includes configuration languages, toolkit languages, and programming languages
- Query language, used to make queries in databases and information systems
- Modeling language, a formal language used to express information or knowledge, often for use in computer system design
- data serialization format
See also
- Formal language, an artificial language with precise syntax and semantics
- Modeling language, a formal language that can be used to express information or knowledge or systems
- Natural language processing, the use of computers to process text or speech in human language
- Specification language
- Hardware description language
