Dictionary: Languages

  • Scala - A strongly statically typed high-level general-purpose programming language that supports both object-oriented programming and functional programming.
  • Scheme - A dialect of the Lisp family of programming languages.
  • Scribe - A markup language and word processing system that pioneered the use of descriptive markup.
  • SGML - An ISO specification for defining declarative markup languages.
  • SQL - A domain-specific language used to manage data, especially in a relational database management system (RDBMS).
  • Swift - A high-level general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language created by Chris Lattner in 2010 for Apple Inc. and maintained by the open-source community.
  • TCL - A high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language designed with the goal of being very simple but powerful.
  • TypeScript [TS] - A high-level programming language that adds static typing with optional type annotations to JavaScript.
  • VBScript - A deprecated programming language for scripting on Microsoft Windows using Component Object Model (COM), based on classic Visual Basic and Active Scripting.
  • Visual Basic [VB] - A multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft and implemented on .NET, Mono, and the .NET Framework.
  • WFL - The process control language for the Burroughs large systems, including the Unisys ClearPath/MCP series, and their operating system Master Control Program.
  • Wolfram - A proprietary, high-level multi-paradigm programming language developed by Wolfram Research that emphasizes symbolic computation, functional programming, and rule-based programming and can employ arbitrary structures and data.
  • WSDL - an XML-based interface description language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service.
  • XHTML - Part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML).
  • XML - A markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data.
  • XSLT - A language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML.
  • YAML - A human-readable data serialization language. It is commonly used for configuration files and in applications where data is being stored or transmitted.