Programming Language

A programming language is a machine-readable artifial language designed to express computations that can be performed by a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that specify the behavior of a machine, to express algorithms precisely, or as a mode of human communication.

Many programming languages have some form of written specification of their syntax and semantics, since computers require precisely defined instructions. Some (such as C) are defined by a specification document (for example, an ISO Standard), while others (such as Perl) have a dominant implementation.

The earliest programming languages predate the invention of the computer, and were used to direct the behavior of machines such as Jacquard looms and player pianos. Thousands of different programming languages have been created, mainly in the computer field, with many more being created every year.

The first programming languages predate the modern computer. The 19th century had "programmable" looms and player piano scrolls which implemented what are today recognized as examples of domain-specific programming languages. By the beginning of the twentieth century, punch cards encoded data and directed mechanical processing. In the 1930s and 1940s, the formalisms of Alonzo Church's lambda calculus and Alan Turing's Turing machines provided mathematical abstractions for expressing algorithms; the lambda calculus remains influential in language design.

Various methods of measuring language popularity, each subject to a different bias over what is measured, have been proposed:

• counting the number of job advertisements that mention the language
• the number of books sold that teach or describe the language
• estimates of the number of existing lines of code written in the language—which may underestimate languages not often found in public searches
• counts of language references (i.e., to the name of the language) found using a web search engine.

Combining and averaging information from various internet sites, langpop.com claims that ^[34] in 2008 the 10 most cited programming languages are (in alphabetical order): C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and SQL..

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Today, 31st May of 2009, is a historical day for me because i have entered this it class.CSS134.I'm so happy and feel so great that I can enter an it class.This is my dream since I were in childhood.The objective that i enter this class is I want to improve my skill in computering and gain more knowledge about Information Technology.As we all known,the IT is used by all of the country and being a main and important system in this competitive world.

Today, the term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term has become very recognizable. The information technology umbrella can be quite large, covering many fields. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems.

When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology, or "infotech". Information technology is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use of computers and information are associated.

If I enter the IT class,I want to know deeper about the term that exist in IT's world.I hope this class can teach me a lot about IT and one day who knows that I can be a programmer.Haha.Just day dreaming.

Peace from Shasha.

A Stepping Stone

Finally I have made it.I have my own blog to do anything that I want.Express my feelings,telling about true story of my life and others.Peace from me shasha.