Programming Languages

Programming Languages, in the context of software engineering, are engineered languages for expressing computer programs so that software can be written in a human readable form before it is executed by a machine. This group gathers two widely used general purpose languages with markedly different origins and design goals. Python is a high level, general purpose programming language that emphasizes code readability, simplicity, and ease of writing, supporting multiple programming paradigms with particular emphasis on object oriented programming and dynamic typing, and is distributed with an extensive standard library. JavaScript is a programming language and one of the three core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS, created by Brendan Eich in 1995 and maintained today by Ecma International's TC39 technical committee, with the related Web APIs maintained by the W3C and WHATWG; as of 2025 it remains among the most widely used programming languages on code hosting platforms such as GitHub. Both are text based general purpose languages engineers use to instruct computers, distinct from markup or style languages that describe a document's presentation rather than a program's logic.