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Software language

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A software language is an artificial language used in the development of software systems. It is more general than a programming language, which is a language that is used to create instructions to be executed on a computational device. Software languages include modeling languages, query languages, transformation languages, schemas, and domain-specific languages.

Further reading

  • Anneke Kleppe, "Software Language Engineering: Creating Domain-Specific Languages using Metamodels", Addison-Wesley, 2008, ISBN 978-0321553454.