computer language

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023

It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022

If you actually look at the technologies that banks run on, we’re talking about COBOL, which is a computer language from the ’70s.

From The Verge • Apr. 6, 2021

A Flatiron district artificial intelligence start-up was recently looking to expand, adding new engineers who happened to know a niche computer language.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2017

Using `+' or `plus'    to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the    ELIZA effect.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.