computer language
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of computer language
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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In 2011, at the University of Virginia, he co-created a stripped-down computer language that could be learned by students in a week.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023
It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 14, 2022
If you actually look at the technologies that banks run on, we’re talking about COBOL, which is a computer language from the ’70s.
From The Verge • Apr. 6, 2021
It has all been leading, gradually and imperceptibly, to a world in which we no longer have to speak computer language, because computers will speak human language—not perfectly, but well enough to get by.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2016
Also in the 80s, Rama encouraged followers to secure software contracts in ADA, a computer language used to control the United States' hardware of war.
From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot
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