computer language

He argued that the structural rigidity and rule-based grammar of Sanskrit offered a powerful natural analog to the symbolic logic of computer languages.

In 2011, at the University of Virginia, he co-created a stripped-down computer language that could be learned by students in a week.

It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.

Agencies rely on disco-era computer languages that few coders know anymore, and some physical hardware is lapsing into disrepair.

Documents and forms must now be scanned by managers into computer systems that in some cases still run on computer language that debuted half a century ago, then assigned to claims processors working from home.