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Language-based system

Have you ever talked to someone who speaks a different language than you? It's hard to understand each other, right? That's because we don't use the same words and rules to communicate.

Well, imagine if we could create a system where computers can talk to each other using different languages, or programming languages. That's called a language-based system.

Just like how we use English or Spanish to communicate, programmers use different programming languages to create computer programs. For example, some popular programming languages are Java, Python, and JavaScript.

A language-based system helps computers understand and use different programming languages to work together. It's like a language translator for computers!

This means that different parts of a computer program can be written in different languages, but they can all work together using a language-based system. So, just like how two people who speak different languages can still communicate with the help of a translator, different parts of a computer program can still communicate with each other with the help of a language-based system.
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