ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Alphabetical list of programming languages

Okay kiddo, let's talk about the alphabetical list of programming languages. You know how we have words in the English language that we put together to make sentences and communicate with each other? Well, programming languages are kind of like that, but instead of communicating with people, we use them to communicate with computers.

So, imagine you want to tell a computer to do something like add two numbers together. To do that, you would use a programming language like Python or Java. But there are lots of different programming languages out there, just like there are lots of different words in the English language. And, just like words in the English language, we put programming languages in alphabetical order to make them easier to find.

So, when you see an alphabetical list of programming languages, it's just a list of all the different programming languages that people have created, with each language listed in order from A to Z. Some of the most popular programming languages you might see on an alphabetical list include Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, and Ruby, just to name a few.

And there you have it, kiddo. Just like you have a list of all the different words in the English language, we have a list of all the different programming languages in alphabetical order so that we can easily find and use them.