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It hasn’t helped that the agency has such outdated information technology systems that it sometimes uses a 1960s-era computer language for data processing and stores information on magnetic tapes in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

He taught from 1954 to 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he led research into computer language.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2017

Using `+' or `plus'    to mean addition in a computer language is taking advantage of the    ELIZA effect.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.