16 Facts About Programming language

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Programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs.

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Description of a programming language is usually split into the two components of syntax and semantics, which are usually defined by a formal language.

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Term computer language is sometimes used interchangeably with programming language.

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An early high-level programming language to be designed for a computer was Plankalkul, developed for the German Z3 by Konrad Zuse between 1943 and 1945.

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The United States government standardized Ada, a systems programming language derived from Pascal and intended for use by defense contractors.

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One important trend in language design for programming large-scale systems during the 1980s was an increased focus on the use of modules or large-scale organizational units of code.

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Syntax of a Programming language describes the possible combinations of symbols that form a syntactically correct program.

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Programming language syntax is usually defined using a combination of regular expressions and Backus–Naur form .

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Type system defines how a programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact.

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Natural language programming has been proposed as a way to eliminate the need for a specialized language for programming.

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Edsger W Dijkstra took the position that the use of a formal language is essential to prevent the introduction of meaningless constructs, and dismissed natural language programming as "foolish".

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Specification of a programming language is an artifact that the language users and the implementors can use to agree upon whether a piece of source code is a valid program in that language, and if so what its behavior shall be.

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An implementation of a programming language provides a way to write programs in that language and execute them on one or more configurations of hardware and software.

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Programming language is the process by which programmers combine these primitives to compose new programs, or adapt existing ones to new uses or a changing environment.

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Dialect of a programming language or a data exchange language is a variation or extension of the language that does not change its intrinsic nature.

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An assembly Programming language is not so much a paradigm as a direct model of an underlying machine architecture.

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