
Thousands of different programming languages have been created, and new ones are created every year.Īuthors disagree on the precise definition, but traits often considered important requirements and objectives of the language to be characterized as a programming language: Some authors restrict the term "programming language" to those languages that can express all possible algorithms sometimes the term " computer language" is used for more limited artificial languages. Programming languages are used to facilitate communication about the task of organizing and manipulating information, and to express algorithms precisely.

Programming languages, like human languages, are defined through the use of syntactic and semantic rules, to determine structure and meaning respectively.

Related subjects: Computer ProgrammingĪ programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behaviour of a machine, particularly a computer.
