Languages

From Govit

Computer languages fall into several different catagories. Major catagories are outlined below. Click through to see more. Items shown in red need to be expanded.

• Programming languages (e.g., C++, assembly language)
• Scripting languages
• Specification languages
• Java
• Machine Code (the non human-readable form other languages are translated into, sometimes on the fly)
• Bytecode (essentially "virtual" machine code - executed by a virtual machine)
• Query language (e.g., SQL, XQuery)
• Markup languages (e.g., HTML - typically used for producing documents)
• Transformation languages (e.g., XSLT)
• Template processing languages
• Fourth-generation programming language ("4GL")
• Hardware description languages
• Configuration file formats (e.g., INI file)
• Data serialization formats (e.g. XML, SOAP)