Programming language topics

Programming paradigms are a way to classify programming languages according to the style of computer programming.

In computer science, an object type (a.k.a. wrapping object) is a datatype which is used in object-oriented programming to wrap a non-object type to make it look like a dynamic object.

A dialect of a programming language or a data exchange language is a (relatively small) variation or extension of the language that does not change its intrinsic nature.

A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning (instead of a literal meaning) to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression engine.

A high-level language computer architecture (HLLCA) is a computer architecture designed to be targeted by a specific high-level language, rather than the architecture being dictated by hardware considerations.

In distributed computing, a discriminator is a typed tag field present in OMG IDL discriminated union type and value definitions that determines which union member is selected in the current union instance.

Skeleton programming is a style of computer programming based on simple high-level program structures and so called dummy code.

A command language is a domain-specific interpreted language; a common example of a command language are shell or batch programming languages.

A programming language implementation is a system for executing computer programs.

In computer programming, rank with no further specifications is usually a synonym for (or refers to) "number of dimensions"; thus, a two-dimensional array has rank two, a three-dimensional array has rank three and so on.

A programming domain defines a specific kind of use for a programming language.