computer language

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It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in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

In the beginning, computers spoke only computer language, and a human seeking to interact with one was compelled to do the same.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2016

It began one day when he picked up a manual that someone had discarded, a manual for an obscure form of computer language for doing calculations.

From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Levy, Steven