A computer language is a method of communication with a computer. Types of computer languages include:
- Construction language, all forms of communication by which a human can specify an executable problem solution to a computer
- Command language, a language used to control the tasks of the computer itself, such as starting other programs
- Configuration language, a language used to write configuration files
- Programming language, a formal language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer
- Markup language, a grammar for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text, such as HTML
- Modeling language, a formal language used to express information or knowledge, often for use in computer system design
- Hardware description language, used to model integrated circuits
- Page description language, describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap
- Query language, a language used to make queries in databases and information systems
- Simulation language, a language used to describe simulations
- Specification language, a language used to describe what a system should do
- Style sheet language, a computer language that expresses the presentation of structured documents, such as CSS
- Transformation language, designed to transform some input text in a certain formal language into a modified output text that meets some specific goal
See also
- Data serialization
- Domain-specific language, a language specialized to a particular application domain
- General-purpose language, a language that is broadly applicable across application domains, and lacks specialized features for a particular domain
- Lists of programming languages
- Natural language processing, the use of computers to process text or speech in human language