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computer language

[kuhm-pyoo-ter lang-gwij] / kəmˈpju tər ˌlæŋ gwɪdʒ /
NOUN
programming language
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OpenAI announced last week that its artificial-intelligence model discovered two bugs in PHP, a computer language behind 70% of websites on the internet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in warehouses.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

Documents and forms must now be scanned by managers into computer systems that in some cases still run on computer language that debuted half a century ago, then assigned to claims processors working from home.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 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

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 Eric S. Raymond


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