General-Purpose Programming Language
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A General-Purpose Programming Language is a programming language that is designed to be used for writing software programs for a wide variety of application domains.
- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Domain-Specific Programming Language, such as SQL.
- See: Algorithm, General-Purpose Computer.
References
2013
- (Wikipedia, 2013) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_programming_language Retrieved:2013-11-29.
- In computer software a general-purpose programming language is a programming language designed to be used for writing software in a wide variety of application domains. In many ways a general-purpose language only has this status because it does not include language constructs designed to be used within a specific application domain (e.g., a page description language contains constructs intended to make it easier to write programs that control the layout of text and graphics on a page).
A domain-specific programming language is one designed to be used within a specific application domain.
- In computer software a general-purpose programming language is a programming language designed to be used for writing software in a wide variety of application domains. In many ways a general-purpose language only has this status because it does not include language constructs designed to be used within a specific application domain (e.g., a page description language contains constructs intended to make it easier to write programs that control the layout of text and graphics on a page).