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# Programming Language
Programming language is an artificial language created so that humans can relatively easily communicate [algorithms](algorithm.md) to computers. Such language often tries to mimic human language (practically always English) but is much MUCH simpler so that a computer can actually analyze it and understand it precisely so it also partially looks like [math](math.md) expressions.
Programming language is an artificial [language](formal_language.md) created so that humans can relatively easily communicate [algorithms](algorithm.md) to [computers](computer.md). Such language often tries to mimic human language (practically always [English](english.md)) but is much MUCH simpler so that a computer can actually analyze it and understand it precisely so it also partially looks like [math](math.md) expressions. A programming language can be seen as a middle ground between pure machine code (very hard to handle by humans) and natural language (very hard to handle by computers).
For beginners: a programming language is actually much easier to learn than a foreign language, it will typically have fewer than 100 "words" to learn (out of which you'll mostly use like 10) and once you know one programming language, learning another becomes a breeze because they're all (usually) pretty similar in basic concepts. The hard part may be learning some of the concepts.