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source language
[f. source n. + language n.]
1. A language from which a translation is made.
1953Philos. Sci. XX. 217 One of the decisive steps in certain methods of machine translation is the determination of the syntactic structure of any given sentence in the source-language (i.e., the language from which we translate). 1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. Linguistic Sciences 123 Translation as activity faces only one way; the translator observes an event in one language, the ‘source’ language, and performs a related event in another, the ‘target’ language. 1974R. Quirk Linguist & Eng. Lang. vi. 97 The difficulties vary profoundly according to the manifold combinations of source- and target⁓languages involved.
2. Computers. The programming language in which a program or procedure is written. Cf. object language 3.
1959Communications Assoc. Computing Machinery Feb. 9/2 Sections 2 and 3 give a formal description of the Fortran source language, insofar as arithmetic type statements are concerned. 1963Ibid. VI. 430/1 The debugging system has been implemented for Fortran as the source language and could be easily adapted to other problem-oriented languages. 1975T. Bartee Introd. Computer Sci. xiii. 377 For high-level compiler languages such as Fortran, PL/I, and Algol, there is an attempt to make the source language machine-independent. |