A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine (often a computer). Like human languages, programming languages have syntactic and semantic rules used to define meaning. Programming languages are used to facilitate communication about the task of organizing and manipulating information, and to express algorithms precisely. Some authors restrict the term "programming language" to those languages that can express all possible algorithms;In mathematical terms, this means the programming language is Turing-complete sometimes the term "computer language" is used for more limited artificial languages.

Thousands of different programming languagesAs of May 2006 The Encyclopedia of Computer Languages by Murdoch University, Australia lists 8512 computer languages. have been created and new ones are created every year. Few languages ever become sufficiently popular that they are used by more than a few people, but professional programmers may use dozens of different languages during their careers.

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That was a close one - thought my computer ate my term paper for programming languages. That would've SUCKED.
laneshill (Lane S. Hill) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:07:02 -0000
That was a close one - thought my computer ate my term paper for programming languages. That would've SUCKED.
An inteview with Brian Kernighan, co-developer of AWK and AMPL - AMPL, AWK, a-z of programming languages, Brian... http://ff.im/-aYbi3
akitada (Akira Kitada) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:31:59 -0000
An inteview with Brian Kernighan, co-developer of AWK and AMPL - AMPL, AWK, a-z of programming languages, Brian... http://ff.im/-aYbi3
@arjansworld I'm currently having a look at functional languages and parallel programming, if you want easy things to tell :))
Nixen67 (Federico Zuccollo) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:23:33 -0000
@arjansworld I'm currently having a look at functional languages and parallel programming, if you want easy things to tell :))
Considering other programming languages. Ruby, python or stick with PHP. Any thoughts?
lewisnorth (Lewis North) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:33:24 -0000
Considering other programming languages. Ruby, python or stick with PHP. Any thoughts?
How the majority of developers survives without dynamic languages and meta-programming sugar?
PanosJee (PanosJee) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:29:29 -0000
How the majority of developers survives without dynamic languages and meta-programming sugar?
just read: If programming languages were women, who would they be? - amix blog http://bit.ly/iwtgk
toast38coza (Christo Crampton) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:56:52 -0000
just read: If programming languages were women, who would they be? - amix blog http://bit.ly/iwtgk

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