Source Language

Source language may refer to:

  • Source language, in translation, the language that is translated from
  • Source code, text written in a computer programming language

Famous quotes containing the words source and/or language:

    “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it.... My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff—he’s always, always in my mind—not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself—but as my own being.”
    —Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

    “When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
    —Christopher Ricks (b. 1933)