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Computer language

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Formal language for communicating with a computer

Acomputer language is aformal language for humans tocommunicate with acomputer, not anatural language. In earlier days ofcomputing (before the 1980s), the term was used interchangeably withprogramming language, but today, used primarily fortaxonomy, is a broader term that encompasses languages that are not programming in nature. Sub-categories (with possibly contended hierarchical relationships) include:

Construction
- Programming – for controlling computer behavior
  - Command – for controlling the tasks of a computer, such as starting programs
  - Query – forquerying databases andinformation systems
  - Transformation – for transforming the text of a formal language into text that meets a specific goal
- Structural
  - Configuration – for writingconfiguration files
  - Data exchange – examples:JSON,XML
  - Markup – for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text, such asHTML
  - Page description – for describing the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual outputbitmap
  - Style sheet – for expressing the presentation of structured documents, such asCSS
Modeling – for designing systems
- Architecture description – for describing and representing system architecture
- Hardware description – for modelingintegrated circuits
Simulation – forsimulating
Specification – for describing what a system should do

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v t e Types ofcomputer language
Types	Architecture description Data exchange Hardware description Knowledge representation Markup Modeling Programming language Query Shading Specification Stylesheet Transformation
See also	Category:Lists of computer languages Category:Lists of programming languages List of programming languages by type

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