How to Use programming language in a Sentence

programming language

noun
  • That programming language is used by only 7 percent of the job-seekers on the site.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2019
  • The code is still there, still written in the same programming languages and still available when something needs to be refined.
    — Tiago Azevedo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2026
  • The first version of the programming language Java was released.
    — USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • In previous years, some readers have complained that neither should appear on a list of programming languages.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Sep. 2019
  • What is stopping this is really—just like human languages—programming languages have context.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This article wouldn’t be complete without mentioning some of the losers in the programming language jobs calculus.
    — Nick Diakopoulos, IEEE Spectrum, 18 July 2017
  • Python, for example, is a popular programming language that is famously smooth at handling integers of any size.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
  • This metric captures the prevalence of the different programming languages as used and referenced in scholarship.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 22 July 2020
  • Teaches popular programming languages Learning how to program is a tedious but rewarding process.
    — Creation Crate, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2019
  • This number indicates the volume of online information resources about each programming language.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 22 July 2020
  • Your recruiting pitch should highlight modern tools and programming languages, as well as opportunities for training and mentorship.
    — Robert Hogeboom, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Simply by changing the programming language their coders use, organizations can have a large positive impact on their security.
    — Evan Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Several young companies are now working to bring biology-specific software and programming languages to the lab in order to automate such tasks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The jury decided what could be a precedent-setting lawsuit filed by Oracle, owner of the Java programming language.
    — Margo Anderson, IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2016
  • If a company uses orchestration and integration tools sitting one layer above the agent's brain, knowledge of a programming language isn't a necessity.
    — Max Surkiz, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The company ranked programming languages according to the percentage of job postings within the category that included mention of the language.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Sep. 2018
  • Hired dug into the love/hate relationships between software engineers and programming languages, and teased out mismatches between the software skills engineers have and the skills employers seek.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Mar. 2019
  • The remarkable evolution of computer hardware during the past 80 years has been sparked by advances in programming languages—the essential drivers of computing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Common programming languages such as Python or Rust, which contain roughly understandable plaintext commands for arithmetic operations, didn’t exist back then.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
  • The company fully open-sourced its Mojo programming language and compiler, addressing concerns about platform neutrality.
    — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The world's first programming language based on classical Chinese is only about a month old, and volunteers have already written dozens of programs with it, such as one based on an ancient Chinese fortune-telling algorithm.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Anki’s Code Lab is an easy-to-use graphical interface based on MIT’s Scratch, a popular visual programming language.
    — Celia Gorman, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2017
  • Engineering education, Panetta says, has traditionally focused on tools like equations, programming languages, and lab techniques.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • For a large organization such as Google—with a code base of one billion lines of code receiving tens of thousands of commits per day and supporting seven programming languages—measuring code coverage can be especially difficult.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2019
  • These systems—such as Isabelle, Lean, and Rocq—are specialized programming languages that check mathematical proofs step-by-step, verifying their logical correctness.
    — Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026
  • The bottom layer is a combination of existing code coverage libraries for each programming language, while the middle layers automate and integrate code coverage into the company’s development and build workflows.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Most engineering careers in technology require an understanding of programming languages like Java, C++, Python, Ruby, and others.
    — Creation Crate, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2019
  • What began as low-level programming using assembly language—which is as close as programmers can get to machine code instructions—evolved into Java, Python, C, JavaScript, and the other programming languages of today.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The University System of Georgia’s FinTech Academy is meant to increase the number of students pursuing degrees in the field in order to fill a talent gap in the state’s fintech industry, and includes courses on mainframe programming languages.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Apr. 2020
  • From the manual rewiring of ENIAC to the orchestration of intelligent, distributed systems, programming languages have steadily evolved to make computers more powerful, expressive, and accessible.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2026

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