Symbolic language (programming)
In computer science, a symbolic language is a language that uses characters or symbols to represent concepts, such as mathematical operations and the entities (or operands) on which these operations are performed.[1]
Modern programming languages use symbols to represent concepts and/or data and are therefore, examples of symbolic languages.[1]
Some programming languages (such as Lisp and Mathematica) make it easy to represent higher-level abstractions as expressions in the language, enabling symbolic programming.[2], [3]
See also
- Mathematical notation
- Notation (general)
- Programming language specification
- Symbol table
- Symbolic language (other)
References
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- "Symbolic Programming Visualized—Wolfram Blog". Retrieved 2019-03-23.
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