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| | Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | For example, one prominent artificial language, Esperanto, was created by L. | | | Mathematics and computer science use artificial entities called formal languages (including programming languages and markup languages, but also some that are far more theoretical in nature). | | | An example of a typological classification is the classification of languages on the basis of the basic order of the verb, the subject and the object in a sentence into several types: SVO, SOV, VSO, and so on, languages. |
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| | Computer language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A computer language is a language used by, or in association with, computers. | | | Often, the term is used synonymously with programming language, but in general a computer language need not be a programming language. | | | It is understood that markup languages like HTML are generally not held to be programming languages, but they are computer languages. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hebrew Language and Literature |
| | Naturally the earlier stages of the growth of the language are the ones involved in the greatest obscurity. | | | To construct an historical sketch of he origin and development of the Hebrew language is a task beset with much difficulty. | | | Hebrew belongs to the great Semitic family of languages, the geographical location of which is principally in South-Western Asia, extending from the Mediterranean to the mountains east of the valley of the Euphrates, and from the mountains of Armenia on the north to the southern extremity of the Arabian Peninsula. |
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| | Object language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In computing, the object language of a translation by a compiler or assembler is the language into which a computer program is being translated. | | | Object language should not be confused with object-oriented language, which is a particular type of computer programming language. | | | The object language of a translation most often is a machine language, but can be some other kind of language, such as assembly language. |
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| | Dataflow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Out-of-order execution is the conceptual descendant of dataflow computation and has become the dominant computing paradigm since the 1990s. | | | Dataflow is a software architecture based on the idea that changing the value of a variable should automatically force recalculation of the values of other variables. | | | The term dataflow may also be used to refer to the flow of data within a system, and is the name normally given to the arrows in a data flow diagram that represent the flow of data between external entities, processes, and data stores. |
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| | Specification language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Unlike most programming languages, which are directly executable formal languages used to implement a system, specification languages are used during system analysis, requirements analysis and design. | | | The result of such a refinement process is an executable algorithm, which is either formulated in a programming language, or in an executable subset of the specification language at hand. | | | An important use of specification languages is enabling the creation of proofs of program correctness (see theorem prover). |
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| | Programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A programming language is a stylized communication technique intended to be used for controlling the behaviour of a machine (often a computer). | | | For instance, a programming language differs from natural languages in that natural languages are used for interaction between people, while programming languages are used for communication from people to machines (this rules out languages used for computer to computer interaction). | | | Programming languages are not error tolerant; however, the burden of recognizing and using the special vocabulary is reduced by help messages generated by the programming language implementation. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language
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| | The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal) |
| | In smaller print we have boxes on the Genie case (language development of a neglected child), the classification of tongue slips, and the debate over "critical periods" in language development. | | | Part seven explores child language acquisition and part eight the relationship of the brain to language and language handicaps. | | | Part nine surveys the variety of languages around the world, their distribution and their historical relationships, and part ten the varied roles language plays in different areas of human life. |
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| | Assembly language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Assembly language, commonly called assembly, asm or symbolic machine code, is a human-readable notation for the machine language that a specific computer architecture uses. | | | Another common area of assembly language use is in the system BIOS of a computer. | | | Assembly language is also valuable in reverse engineering, since many programs are distributed only in machine code form, and machine code is usually easy to translate into assembly language and carefully examine in this form, but very difficult to translate into a higher-level language. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language
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| | Procedural programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most or all extant procedural programming languages are also imperative languages, because they make explicit references to the state of the execution environment. | | | Procedural programming is a programming paradigm based upon the concept of the procedure call. | | | Procedures, also known as routines, subroutines, methods, or functions (not to be confused with mathematical functions, but similar to those used in functional programming) simply contain a series of computational steps to be carried out. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming_language
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| | Greek Language Paper @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) |
| | , Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language, Routledge, 1997, ISBN 041510002X. | | | Modern Greek, Encyclopedia of the World's Major Languages, Brian Joseph | | | The ancient languages which were probably most closely related to it, ancient Macedonian (which may have been a dialect of Greek) and Phrygian, are not well enough documented to permit detailed comparison. |
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| | Dataflow language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In computer programming, a dataflow language is a visual programming language that implements dataflow principles and architecture, and model a program, conceptually if not physically, as a directed graph of the data flowing between operations. | | | Dataflow languages share some features of functional languages, and were generally developed in order to bring some functional concepts to a language more suitable for numeric processing. | | | Dataflow languages contrast with the majority of programming languages, which use the imperative programming model. |
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| | The History of Computer Programming Languages |
| | The language was designed at IBM for scientific computing. | | | It was the first computer language for electronic devices and it required the programmer to change its statements into 0's and 1's by hand. | | | Computer languages were first composed of a series of steps to wire a particular program; these morphed into a series of steps keyed into the computer and then executed; later these languages acquired advanced features such as logical branching and object orientation. |
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| | AWK programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | AWK is a general purpose computer language that is designed for processing text based data, either in files or data streams. | | | Awk is an example of a programming language that extensively uses the string datatype, associative arrays (that is, arrays indexed by key strings), and regular expressions. | | | Awk is one of the early tools to appear in Version 7 UNIX and gained popularity as a way to add computational features to a UNIX pipeline. |
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| | Functional programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A much-improved functional programming language was LISP, developed by John McCarthy while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the IBM 700/7000 series scientific computers in the late 1950s. | | | Functional languages have remained largely the domain of academics and hobbyists, and what little inroads have been made are due to impure functional languages such as Erlang and Common Lisp. | | | Functional programming appears to be missing several constructs often (though incorrectly) considered essential to an imperative language such as C or Pascal. |
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| | Compiler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A compiler is a computer program that translates a series of statements written in one computer language (called the source code) into a resulting output in another computer language (often called the object or target language). | | | However, translation from a low level language to a high level one is also possible; this is normally known as a decompiler if it is reconstructing a high level language program which (could have) generated the low level language program. | | | Certain languages, due to the design of the language and certain rules placed on the declaration of variables and other objects used, and the predeclaration of executable procedures prior to reference or use, are capable of being compiled in a single pass. |
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| | Frame language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Frame languages are rather focused on the recognition and description of objects classes, and relations and interactions are considered as "secondary". | | | In such sense, for example: ((computer science) a programming language that enables the programmer to associate a set of procedures with each type of data structure) Object-oriented programming languages are frame languages, but also every grammar is a frame language. | | | In specific contexts, the authors of computer languages use the term "frame" arbitrarily and frequently intuitively, and in a metaphoric sense. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/f/fr/frame_language.htm
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| | object language - definition of object language in Encyclopedia |
| | In computer science, an object language is a programming language that a programmer codes in. | | | In the process, code itself becomes other intermediate languages (such as assembly language) before becoming a binary program that the computer can run. | | | For an account of the concept of object language in mathematical logic, see formal system. |
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| | Simulation language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A computer simulation language describes the operation of a simulation on a computer. | | | An important part of discrete-event languages is the ability to generate pseudo-random numbers and variates from different probability distributions. | | | Most languages also have a graphical interface and at least simple statistical gathering capability for the analysis of the results. |
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| | Brainfuck |
| | The language is based on a simple machine model consisting, besides the program, of an array of bytes initialized to zero, a pointer into the array (initialized to point to the first byte of the array), and two streams of bytes for input and output. | | | Brainfuck is a minimalist computer programming language created by Urban Müller; around 1993. | | | However, the Turing machine, and therefore brainfuck, can accomplish any computing task. |
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| | Scripting language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A script language can be found at almost every level of a computer system. | | | Scripting languages are often designed for interactive use, having many commands that can execute individually, and often have very high level operations (for example, in the classic UNIX shell (sh), most operations are programs themselves). | | | Likewise, many computer game systems use a custom scripting language to express the programmed actions of non-player characters and the game environment. |
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| | Macro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A macro language is a programming language in which all or most computation is done by expanding macros. | | | This limitation can be overcome by creating a computer program in a more powerful programming language, such as VBA, to generate a specialized macro in the weaker programming language. | | | The term macro is used in many similar contexts which are derived from the concept of macro-expansion, including keyboard macros and macro languages. |
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| | C programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | C was created with one important goal in mind: to make it easier to write large programs with fewer errors in the procedural programming paradigm, but without encumbering the writer of the C compiler by complex language features. | | | C is a relatively minimalist programming language that operates close to the hardware, and is more similar to assembly language than to most high-level languages. | | | Indeed, C is sometimes referred to as "portable assembly", reflecting its important difference from low-level languages such as assembly languages: C code can be compiled to run on almost any computer, more than any other language in existence, while any given assembly language runs on at most a few very specific models of computers. |
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| | Lisp programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Today, Lisp languages are used in many fields, from web development to finance [1], and are also common in computer science education. | | | Information Processing Language was the first AI language, from 1955 or 1956, and already included many of the concepts, such as list-processing and recursion, which came to be used in Lisp. | | | Lisp languages are frequently used with an interactive command line, which may be combined with an integrated development environment. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language: Books |
| | The is very good for A-Level students and it does convey the 'magic' and 'fascination' of linguistics and languages, but it will become too easy and shallow to help students with academic research. | | | In a sense it could be just as usefully called an encyclopedia of linguistics, as it provides as much information on research and theories of language as it does on the language itself. | | | There is new material on acoustics, physiological concepts of language, and World English, and a complete update of the language distribution maps, language-speaking statistics, a table of the world's languages, and further reading. |
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| | Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The usage of this language is mainly either to define which form of magic is wished to be used, or as the main language used by the magical elves. | | | Mathematics and computer science use artificial entities called formal languages (including programming languages and markup languages, but also some that are far more theoretical in nature). | | | Other constructed languages strive to be more logical than natural languages; a prominent example of this is Lojban. |
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| | BCPL - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | BCPL ( Basic Combined Programming Language) is a computer programming language that was designed by Martin Richards of the University of Cambridge in 1966 ; it was originally intended for use in writing compilers for other languages. | | | BCPL was also the initial language used in the seminal Xerox PARC Alto project, the first modern personal computer; among many other influential projects, the ground-breaking Bravo document preparation system was written in BCPL. | | | The language was first described in a paper presented to the 1969 Spring Joint Computer Conference. |
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| | Forth programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Forth has been popular for developing embedded systems and instrument controls because it is easy to add small machine code definitions to the language and use those in an interactive high-level programming environment. | | | Forth programming style uses very few named data objects compared with other languages; typically such data objects are used to contain data which is used by a number of words or tasks (in a multitasked implementation). | | | Forth is a procedural, data-structured, reflective, programming language and programming environment. |
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| | Programming language - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Functional languages often restrict names to denoting run-time computed values directly, instead of naming memory locations where values may be stored, and in some cases refuse to allow the value denoted by a name to be modified at all. | | | Most languages that are widely used, or have been used for a considerable period of time, have standardization bodies that meet regularly to create and publish formal definitions of the language, and discuss extending or supplementing the already extant definitions. | | | Languages that use garbage collection are free to allow arbitrarily complex data structures as both expressed and denoted values. |
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