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Category:Meta-languages

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The category of metalanguages, or languages which describe other languages. One of the first meta-languages used in programming was the Backus–Naur Form, developed in the 1960s by John Backus and Peter Naur. Technically, all useful programming languages can be thought of as metalanguages. The languages here were specifically designed to model other (programming) languages.