Abstract
There are many similarities between national languages and the special languages used to communicate with computers. Computer languages, for example, have special words, sets of rules for using those words and a structure for ordering and placing all the items in the language. Computer languages are sometimes described as artificial languages to contrast them with the natural languages such as English, Arabic or Chinese. Whether you agree or not with this distinction between natural and artificial languages, it is certain that computer languages have been created to do a job: to help us communicate with a machine, in an effective and efficient way, so that the machine will do exactly what we want it to do. From this point of view, computers and computer languages are tools: like hammers or spanners, they have been designed to carry out a job of some kind. The great advantage and versatility of computers lies in the fact that one language enables many different jobs to be performed and changing the language can open up many other, new applications.
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