garden/pages/programming language.md

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- > a system of notation for writing computer programs. - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language)
- programming languages are usually split into *syntax* (the way things are typed) and *semantics* (what the typed things mean). these are usually defined by a formal language.
- some languages have big fancy reference standards, like [[c]], which has a fancy and expensive