...
/General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Programming Languages
General-Purpose and Domain-Specific Programming Languages
Learn about general-purpose and domain-specific programming languages and recognize the importance of domain-specific languages.
General-purpose programming languages (GPLs)
General-purpose programming languages are designed for a wide variety of tasks and applications. Examples include C, C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript. These languages are often used for building desktop and mobile applications, web development, game development, and scientific computing.
They provide a wide range of features and libraries that make it easy to perform various tasks, and constitute large communities of developers who have created and contributed to various libraries and frameworks.
Following are the Hello World programs in some of the famous GPLs:
#include <iostream>using namespace std;int main() {// your code goes herecout << "Hello World";return 0;}
Domain-specific programming languages (DSLs)
A domain-specific programming language (DSL) is a ...