programming language extension

C13241
concept

A programming language extension is an add-on or modification that enhances an existing language with new syntax, features, or capabilities without fundamentally changing its core semantics.

All labels observed (23)

Label Occurrences
PostgreSQL extension 5
programming language dialect 5
programming language extension canonical 5

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: programming language extension
Generated description
A programming language extension is an add-on or modification that enhances an existing language with new syntax, features, or capabilities without fundamentally changing its core semantics.

Instances (38)

Instance Via concept surface
Applesoft BASIC programming language dialect
XQuery Update Facility XQuery extension
XQuery Scripting Extension
TSX programming language syntax extension
C# attributes programming language feature
CUDA Fortran parallel programming language extension
Python generic class definitions programming language feature
Python generic function definitions proposed Python language feature
Annex D (Real-Time Systems) Ada language annex
Annex H (High Integrity Systems) Ada language annex
Annex E (Distributed Systems) Ada language annex
M4 macro processing language
LaTeX3 LaTeX programming language extension
e-TeX extension of TeX
plpython2u PostgreSQL extension
PL/Perl PostgreSQL extension
Pyrex Python extension language
Tarantool Lua programming language dialect
Spec#
XHP PHP extension
JSX JavaScript syntax extension
Common Lisp Object System programming language feature
Cilk multithreaded programming language
surface form: Cilk
parallel programming language extension
Commodore Logo programming language dialect
Objective-C++
C++/CX
Expect Tcl extension
TclOO Tcl extension
Safe-Tcl Tcl extension
incr Tcl object-oriented extension
Polyphonic C#
Polyphonic C# language design
surface form: Polyphonic C#
experimental programming language extension
Tiny BASIC programming language dialect
Commodore BASIC programming language dialect
Cython Python extension language
PL/pgSQL PostgreSQL extension
PL/Python PostgreSQL extension
PostGIS PostgreSQL extension