How to Use programming language in a Sentence
programming language
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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
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The first version of the programming language Java was released.
—USA Today, 6 May 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Engineering education, Panetta says, has traditionally focused on tools like equations, programming languages, and lab techniques.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
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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
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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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The courses within the Premium Learn to Code Certification Bundle are taught by Joseph Delgadillo, who teaches you different programming languages in a few hours, like C++, Python, and Java.
—New Atlas, 14 May 2026
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The stock dropped 13% in a single day in February after artificial intelligence model builder Anthropic said AI could assist companies with modernizing code written in the COBOL programming language.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
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Modular is a software company founded by Chris Lattner, the engineer behind the LLVM compiler infrastructure, Apple’s Swift programming language, and much of Google’s TPU software stack.
—Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
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By Web crawling code-hosting platforms like Bitbucket, GitHub, and the Python Package Index, Software Heritage has built up a collection of more than 22 billion source files from around 345 million projects in more than 600 programming languages.
—Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2025
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Hard and soft skills At a minimum, cybersecurity professionals should have a general understanding of IT including operating systems, communication protocols, network architecture, and programming languages such as C++, Java, and Python.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 May 2026
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