Symbolic language (programming)

In <a href="/facts/Computer_science/lN3pEyPz">computer science</a>, a symbolic language, or assembly language, is a language that uses <a href="/facts/Character_(computing)/X2zKLFFB">characters</a> or <a href="/facts/Symbols/GS8mTn0h">symbols</a> to represent concepts, such as <a href="/facts/Operation_(mathematics)/Yplv602Q">mathematical operations</a> and the entities (or <a href="/facts/Operands/HSuUzrKz">operands</a>) on which these operations are performed.
Modern <a href="/facts/Programming_languages/cWTYbgWa">programming languages</a> use symbols to represent concepts and/or data and are, therefore, examples of symbolic languages.
Some programming languages (such as <a href="/facts/Lisp_(programming_language)/xJHA3CrX">Lisp</a> and <a href="/facts/Wolfram_Mathematica/dRwoGFG2">Mathematica</a>) make it easy to represent higher-level <a href="/facts/Abstraction_(computer_science)/hAnxmJle">abstractions</a> as <a href="/facts/Expression_(computer_science)/eRlhoBeN">expressions</a> in the language, enabling <a href="/facts/Symbolic_programming/wg3xA0Dn">symbolic programming</a>.

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