programming language

C1703
concept

A programming language is a formal system of syntax and semantics that allows humans to write instructions a computer can execute to perform specific tasks or solve problems.

All labels observed (62)

Label Occurrences
programming language canonical 215
domain-specific language 20
educational programming language 6

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
Generated description
A programming language is a formal system of syntax and semantics that allows humans to write instructions a computer can execute to perform specific tasks or solve problems.

Instances (264)

Instance Via concept surface
Boo
Hack
UCSD Pascal Pascal dialect
M language domain-specific language
Logo programming language
surface form: Logo
Pascal
HLSL shading language
COBOL
Assembler low-level programming language
MDL domain-specific language
RobotC
NXC (Not eXactly C)
surface form: NXC
Tcl
Metal Shading Language shading language
AmigaBASIC
ARexx
PHP
RPL programming language
RSL shading language
VHDL
Verilog
Craig Chambers
surface form: Cecil
TI-BASIC
XSLT declarative programming language
ECMAScript scripting language specification
Scheme
Dart
Elm
ReasonML programming language syntax
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
FreeBASIC
BBC BASIC
Small Basic
Martin Richards
surface form: BCPL
Network Applied Communication Laboratory
surface form: Ruby programming language
SETLX
SETL2
Amiga E
TableGen domain-specific language
Crystal
Pharo Smalltalk
Cedar (programming language)
M4 macro processor text processing language
PostScript
TECO
Clojure
FLOW-MATIC programming language
surface form: FLOW-MATIC
Java 1.3 programming platform
F#
VBScript