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View synonyms for computer language

computer language

[ kuhm-pyoo-ter lang-gwij ]

noun

  1. a programming language, as BASIC, COBOL, or FORTRAN, devised for communicating instructions to a computer.


computer language

noun

  1. another term for programming language
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of computer language1

First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences

He argued that the structural rigidity and rule-based grammar of Sanskrit offered a powerful natural analog to the symbolic logic of computer languages.

From Salon

In 2011, at the University of Virginia, he co-created a stripped-down computer language that could be learned by students in a week.

It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.

Agencies rely on disco-era computer languages that few coders know anymore, and some physical hardware is lapsing into disrepair.

Documents and forms must now be scanned by managers into computer systems that in some cases still run on computer language that debuted half a century ago, then assigned to claims processors working from home.

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