computer language
Example Sentences
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It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.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
When Xerox executives decided not to release Interpress, a precursor to PostScript, Dr. Geschke and Warnock decided to quit and develop a version of the computer language on their own.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2021
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
A `Turing tar-pit' is any computer language or other tool which shares this property.
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.
