General-purpose language
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A general-purpose language is a computer language that is broadly applicable across application domains, and lacks specialized features for a particular domain. This is in contrast to a domain-specific language (DSL), which is specialized to a particular application domain. The line is not always sharp, as a language may have specialized features for a particular domain but be applicable more broadly, or conversely may in principle be capable of broad application but in practice used primarily for a specific domain.[1]
General-purpose languages are further subdivided by the kind of language, and include:
- General-purpose markup languages, such as XML[2]
- General-purpose modeling language such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML)[3]
- General-purpose programming languages, such as C, Java, PHP, or Python[4]
References
- ↑ "Definition of general-purpose language". PCMag. https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/general-purpose-language. Retrieved April 6, 2020. "A programming language that is used to solve a wide variety of problems. Languages such as C, C++ and Java are examples. Contrast with special-purpose language. See general purpose."
- ↑ John Ousterhout (2008). "Markup Languages: XML, HTML, XHTML". https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/CS349W/lectures/markup.html. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- ↑ Mallet, Frédéric (2008). "Clock constraint specification language: specifying clock constraints with UML/MARTE". Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering 4 (3): 309–314. doi:10.1007/s11334-008-0055-2. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/52790845.pdf.
- ↑ "Programming Languages Through the Years". The Software Guild. July 30, 2015. https://www.thesoftwareguild.com/blog/history-of-programming-languages/. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
External links
- Hicks, Mike; Levin, Dave. "CMSC 330: Organization of Programming Languages". http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2013/cmsc330/lectures/intro.pdf. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
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