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The Languages of Computer Science

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Throughout their construction process computational artifacts are defined, specified, and described by the languages of computer science. This is one of their distinctive features. Artificial languages are employed for programming, specification, and architectural and hardware description. They are the vehicles for the expression of their functional and structural requirements.

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Turner, R. (2018). The Languages of Computer Science. In: Computational Artifacts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55565-1_7

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