Computer language
Computer language is a formal language used in communication with a computer. Types of computer languages include:
- Construction language – all forms of communication by which a human can specify an executable problem solution to a computer
- Command language – a language used to control the tasks of the computer itself, such as starting other programs
- Configuration language – a language used to write configuration files
- Programming language – a formal language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer
- Query language – a language used to make queries in databases and information systems
- Transformation language – designed to transform some input text in a certain formal language into a modified output text that meets some specific goal
- Data exchange language – a language that is domain-independent and can be used for data from any kind of discipline; examples: JSON, XML
- Markup language – a grammar for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text, such as HTML
- Modeling language – an artificial language used to express information or knowledge, often for use in computer system design
- Architecture description language – used as a language (or a conceptual model) to describe and represent system architectures
- Hardware description language – used to model integrated circuits
- Page description language – describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap
- Simulation language – a language used to describe simulations
- Specification language – a language used to describe what a system should do
- Style sheet language – a computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents, such as CSS
See also
- Data serialization
- Domain-specific language – a language specialized to a particular application domain
- General-purpose language – a language that is broadly applicable across application domains, and lacks specialized features for a particular domain
- Lists of programming languages
- Natural language processing – the use of computers to process text or speech in human language