Programming language
Language for communicating instructions to a machine
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A programming language is an engineered language for expressing computer programs, typically allowing software to be written in a human readable manner. Execution of a program requires an implementation. There are two main approaches for implementing a programming language – compilation, where programs are translated ahead-of-time to machine code, and interpretation, where programs are directly executed. In addition to these two extremes, some implementations use hybrid approaches such as just-in-time compilation and bytecode interpreters. The design of programming languages has been strongly influenced by computer architecture, with most imperative languages designed around the ubiquitous von Neumann architecture. While early programming languages were closely tied to the hardware, modern languages often hide hardware details via abstraction in an effort to enable better software with less effort. These languages are known as high-level languages.
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Programming language
Language for communicating instructions to a machine
A programming language is an engineered language for expressing computer programs, typically allowing software to be written in a human readable manner. Execution of a program requires an implementation. There are two main approaches for implementing a programming language – compilation, where programs are translated ahead-of-time to machine code, and interpretation, where programs are directly executed. In addition to these two extremes, some implementations use hybrid approaches such as just-in-time compilation and bytecode interpreters. The design of programming languages has been strongly influenced by computer architecture, with most imperative languages designed around the ubiquitous von Neumann architecture. While early programming languages were closely tied to the hardware, modern languages often hide hardware details via abstraction in an effort to enable better software with less effort. These languages are known as high-level languages.
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Power
Article length
94 / 120
Reliability
Reference density and count
60 / 120
Durability
Age and revision count
364 / 400
Handling
Recent edit activity and view trend
16 / 30
Renown
Language editions and incoming links
93 / 100
Article size
65 kB
Sources cited
153
Sections
27
Revisions
5,062
Revisions in 90 days
17
Incoming links
9,248
Language editions
152
Views over 12 months
287,172
Created on
November 9, 2001
Wikidata statements
147
Epic — 99.9th percentile of notability
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