Programming language topics

category of programming languages according to what methodology of designing and implementing programs their features support

in object-oriented programming, a definition that specifies how an object works

formal grammar whose production rules can be applied to a nonterminal symbol regardless of its context

set of rules defining the structure of a programming language

process of modifying software to improve efficiency or performance

word in a programming language that cannot be used as an identifier

property of a type system that prevents certain erroneous or undesirable program behaviours

computer programming concept applicable to multi-threaded programs

word with a special meaning in a programming language

computer programming

comparison of the popularity of a programming language

In computer programming, homoiconicity (from the Greek words homo- meaning "the same" and icon meaning "representation") is an informal property of some programming languages. A language is homoiconic if a program written in it can be manipulated as data using the language. The program's internal representation can thus be inferred just by reading the program itself. This property is often summarized by saying that the language treats code as data. The informality of the property arises from the fact that, strictly, this applies to almost all programming languages. No consensus exists on a pre

relatively small variation or extension of a computer language that does not change its intrinsic nature

A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine. For instance, in XML, the character is interpreted not as ordinary text (in which it would be the less-than sign), but rather as a metacharacter signalling the beginning of an XML tag.

type qualifier in C, C++, D, JavaScript, Julia and Rust

syntax rule for programming languages (e.g. Python) where nesting of code blocks is expressed by their indentation

design pattern in software development

concurrency control mechanism for controlling access to shared memory in concurrent computing

property that determines how operators of the same precedence are grouped in the absence of parentheses

Software engineering methodology

language for job control in computing

class of computer programming languages

the simplest element provided by a programming language

in computer programming

design principles

applying polymorphic functions to arguments of different types

overloadable collection indexing operator

documentation artifact that defines a programming language

feature of Unix shells and some programming languages

principle for avoiding duplicate information and effort in software engineering