List of programming languages
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There are thousands of computer programming
language
s. These are listed in various ways:
Computer programming
Computer programming is the process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs. This source code is written in one or more programming languages. The purpose of programming is to create a program that performs specific operations or exhibits a...
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Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
s. These are listed in various ways:
- Educational programming languageEducational programming languageAn educational programming language is a programming language that is designed primarily as a learning instrument and not so much as a tool for writing programs for real-world work.-Learning paths:...
- Generational list of programming languagesGenerational list of programming languagesHere, a genealogy of programming languages is shown. Languages are categorized under the ancestor language with the strongest influence. Of course, any such categorization has a large arbitrary element, since programming languages often incorporate major ideas from multiple sources.-ALGOL...
- History of programming languagesHistory of programming languagesThis article discusses the major developments in the history of programming languages. For a detailed timeline of events, see the timeline of programming languages.- Before 1940 :The first programming languages predate the modern computer...
- List of object-oriented programming terms
- List of open-source programming languages
- List of programming languages
- List of programming languages by category by general usage and context
- List of programming languages for artificial intelligence
- Non-English-based programming languagesNon-English-based programming languagesNon-English-based programming languages are computer programming languages that, unlike better-known programming languages, do not use keywords taken from, or inspired by, the English vocabulary.- Prevalence of English-based programming languages :...
- Timeline of programming languagesTimeline of programming languagesThis is a timeline of historically important programming languages.Legend-Pre-1950:-1950s:-1960s:-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:- 2010s :-See also:* Programming language* Timeline of computing...