A programming domain defines a specific kind of use for a programming language.

Some examples of programming domains are:

• General purpose applications
• Rapid software prototyping
• Financial time series analysis
• Natural language processing
• Artificial intelligence reasoning
• Expert systems
• Relational database querying
• Theorem proving
• Systems design and implementation
• Application scripting
• Domain-specific applications
• Programming education
• Internet
• Symbolic mathematics
• Numerical mathematics
• Statistical applications
• Text processing
• Matrix algorithms

See also

• Domain-specific language