What Is a Programming Language?

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1CS345 - Programming LanguagesLecture 02Dr. Greg LavenderFall Semester 2007Department of Computer SciencesUniversity of Texas at Austin“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons”-- Alan Perlis, Turing Award Winner 19/5/07 CS345: Lecture 02 - Programming ParadigmsWhat Is a Programming Language? Common Answers A set of imperative statements/commands used todirect a computer to do something useful. for example, in C, we print to an output device: printf(“hello world\n”); what function (in the mathematical sense) is “computed” bythe procedure printf? A formal “notation”

• development of formal linguisticmechanisms
• software tools
• specific machine
• concurrent programming logic programming
• byte-code compiler
• execution on a virtual machine
• programming paradigmsprogramming paradigms
• programming language
• programming into the language
• code