Reserved wordIn a computer language, a reserved word (also known as a reserved identifier) is a word that cannot be used as an identifier, such as the name of a variable, function, or label – it is "reserved from use". This is a syntactic definition, and a reserved word may have no user-defined meaning. A closely related and often conflated notion is a keyword, which is a word with special meaning in a particular context. This is a semantic definition. By contrast, names in a standard library but not built into a language are not considered reserved words or keywords.
Programming language implementationIn computer programming, a programming language implementation is a system for executing computer programs. There are two general approaches to programming language implementation: Interpretation: The program is read as input by an interpreter, which performs the actions written in the program. Compilation: The program is read by a compiler, which translates it into some other language, such as bytecode or machine code. The translated code may either be directly executed by hardware, or serve as input to another interpreter or another compiler.
Return typeIn computer programming, the return type (or result type) defines and constrains the data type of the value returned from a subroutine or method. In many programming languages (especially statically-typed programming languages such as C, C++, Java) the return type must be explicitly specified when declaring a function. In the Java example: public void setShuma(int n1, int n2) { Shuma = n1 + n2 } public int getShuma() { return Shuma; } the return type is . The program can therefore rely on the method returning a value of type .
Partial evaluationIn computing, partial evaluation is a technique for several different types of program optimization by specialization. The most straightforward application is to produce new programs that run faster than the originals while being guaranteed to behave in the same way. A computer program prog is seen as a mapping of input data into output data: where , the static data, is the part of the input data known at compile time. The partial evaluator transforms into by precomputing all static input at compile time.
Histoire des langages de programmationCet article évoque les événements majeurs de l'histoire des langages de programmation. Pour une chronologie détaillée de ces événements, consultez la chronologie des langages de programmation. Au départ, les langages étaient de simples codes . Pendant neuf mois entre 1842 et 1843, Ada Lovelace a traduit le mémoire du mathématicien italien Luigi Menabrea sur la machine analytique, la dernière machine proposée par Charles Babbage. Elle ajouta cet article à une collection de notes dans lesquelles elle détaillait une méthode pour calculer les nombres de Bernoulli à l'aide de la Machine.
