Programming language

Programming Language

A programming language is a way to translate in a reproducible way actions from the programmer into a code the central processing unit CPU can understand and execute. Normally it exists of a series of data definitions combined with logic applied to these data. Generally a computer language reflects the state of development of the hardware and its processing power.

Programming languages can generally be divided into two categories:

Compiled languages must first be translated by a compiler from human readable source code to an intermediate object code. A linker then assembles the object code into executable code that the computer can run.

Interpreted languages rely on a middle-ware application that translates the source into machine code through pre-existing interfaces. For example, an interpreter would read a line such as this: PRINT "Cookies are yummy!" and call the predefined, platform independent function PRINT inside the interpreter itself where the interpreter then executes the platform dependent function call.

• Compilers
  • ASSEMBLER
  • ALGOL
  • COBOL
  • FORTRAN
  • BASIC
  • MUMPS
  • PASCAL
  • C
  • C++
  • Visual Basic
  • Basicscript
  • NextStep
  • Java
  • Javascript
• Interpretors
  • BASIC
  • APL
  • Basicscript
  • Javascript
  • Pike
  • Ruby
• Embedded
  • C
  • C++
  • Assembly
• IDE
  • Visual Studio
  • CodeWarrior
  • XCode
• Database programming languages
  • SQL
  • PL/SQL
• 4GL
  • DML
  • SQL

All items come with a short description and a typical way to use the language.