An artificial language that is used to generate, prepare, or express computer programs. Note: Examples of programming languages are Ada¯, COBOL, Fortran, ALGOL, BASIC, and PL/I. See  block-structured programming language,  logic programming language,  declarative programming language,  interactive programming language,  functional programming language. See also  Ada¯,  ALGOL,  artificial language,  BASIC,  COBOL,  computer program,  computer programming,  Fortran,  generate,  language,  PL/I.