TS ISO/IEC 2382-15

TS ISO/IEC 2382-15 is a vocabulary standard for information technology that organises concepts, definitions, and relationships between entries for programming languages. It belongs to the wider ISO/IEC 2382 family, which was created to support a common technical language for selected concepts used in information processing and IT.

The standard presents definitions in a form intended to ease translation into other languages, avoiding language-specific phrasing as far as possible. In general technical terms, this is important in the programming-language domain because words such as syntax, semantics, declaration, variable, type, and expression can carry slightly different meanings across communities if they are not defined carefully. This document is about terminology and conceptual alignment, not about prescribing a programming method or a particular language.

How the programming-language vocabulary is used

In general technical context, programming languages are formal languages used to instruct a computer to perform tasks. Vocabulary standards in this area help distinguish core concepts, relate one entry to another, and reduce ambiguity when engineers, translators, educators, and documentation teams use the same terms across languages. That makes the standard especially useful where precise wording matters more than implementation detail.

• It is intended to facilitate international communication in information technology.
• It provides terms and definitions for selected information-processing concepts.
• It identifies relationships among the entries.
• It defines concepts related to programming languages.
• Its definitions are drafted to be as language-neutral as possible for translation purposes.

This TSE edition has been withdrawn, but it remains a useful reference for understanding the historical and conceptual vocabulary of programming languages. In documentation and archival contexts, standards of this kind support consistent terminology and clearer cross-language communication.