Dictionary: Languages

  • NoSQL - A type of database design that stores and retrieves data differently from the traditional table-based structure of relational databases.
  • Pascal - An imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring.
  • Perl - A high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
  • PHP - A general-purpose scripting language geared towards web development.
  • PL/SQL - Oracle Corporation's procedural extension for SQL and the Oracle relational database.
  • PowerShell - A shell program developed by Microsoft for task automation and configuration management.
  • Preact - A fast, 3kB alternative to React, offering a largely compatible API for building user interfaces with components and a virtual DOM that aims to provide a smaller bundle size and faster performance compared to React.
  • Pure - A dynamically typed, functional programming language based on term rewriting that facilities for user-defined operator syntax, macros, arbitrary-precision arithmetic (multiple-precision numbers), and compiling to native code through the LLVM.
  • Python - A high-level, general-purpose programming language.
  • R - A programming language for statistical computing and data visualization.
  • Raku - A member of the Perl family of programming languages.
  • RAML - A YAML-based language for describing static APIs (but not REST APIs).
  • Rebol - A cross-platform[6] data exchange language and a multi-paradigm dynamic programming language designed by Carl Sassenrath for network communications and distributed computing.
  • Red - A programming language designed to overcome the limitations of the programming language Rebol.
  • Rexx - A high-level programming language developed at IBM with both proprietary and open source Rexx interpreters for a wide range of computing platforms, and compilers for IBM mainframe computers.
  • Rspec - A computer domain-specific language (DSL) (particular application domain) testing tool written in the programming language Ruby to test Ruby code.
  • Ruby - A general-purpose programming language designed with an emphasis on programming productivity and simplicity.
  • Rust - A general-purpose programming language. It is noted for its emphasis on performance, type safety, concurrency, and memory safety.
  • SAS - A fourth-generation computer programming language used for statistical analysis, created by Anthony James Barr at North Carolina State University.
  • SASS - A preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). SassScript is the scripting language itself.