Programming language theory

Programming language theory - branch of computer science that deals with the design, implementation, analysis, characterization, and classification of programming languages and their individual features. Article “Programming language theory” in English Wikipedia has 30.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 16 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.59 points.

This article has the best quality in Indonesian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Programming language theory”, its content was written by 91 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 245 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 251 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1359 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #76124 in October 2015
• Global: #53521 in December 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #74018 in September 2014
• Global: #120457 in September 2014

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Indonesian (id) Teori bahasa pemrograman		31.6647
2	English (en) Programming language theory		30.1806
3	Turkish (tr) Programlama dili teorisi		28.3755
4	Italian (it) Teoria dei linguaggi di programmazione		25.2181
5	Korean (ko) 프로그래밍 언어 이론		23.2491
6	French (fr) Théorie des langages de programmation		22.8698
7	Chinese (zh) 程式語言理論		21.266
8	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія мов програмування		20.3341
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lý thuyết ngôn ngữ lập trình		19.834
10	Russian (ru) Теория языков программирования		19.5279

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Programming language theory" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Programming language theory		983 674
2	Spanish (es) Teoría de lenguajes de programación		257 585
3	Russian (ru) Теория языков программирования		45 375
4	Vietnamese (vi) Lý thuyết ngôn ngữ lập trình		32 568
5	Chinese (zh) 程式語言理論		31 611
6	Turkish (tr) Programlama dili teorisi		14 888
7	Italian (it) Teoria dei linguaggi di programmazione		13 433
8	Persian (fa) نظریه زبان‌های برنامه‌نویسی		8 814
9	French (fr) Théorie des langages de programmation		8 812
10	Polish (pl) Teoria języków programowania		5 334

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Programming language theory" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Programming language theory		2 133
2	Chinese (zh) 程式語言理論		164
3	French (fr) Théorie des langages de programmation		124
4	Russian (ru) Теория языков программирования		114
5	Spanish (es) Teoría de lenguajes de programación		100
6	Italian (it) Teoria dei linguaggi di programmazione		40
7	Turkish (tr) Programlama dili teorisi		37
8	Persian (fa) نظریه زبان‌های برنامه‌نویسی		31
9	Vietnamese (vi) Lý thuyết ngôn ngữ lập trình		29
10	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія мов програмування		26

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Programming language theory" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Programming language theory		91
2	Spanish (es) Teoría de lenguajes de programación		20
3	Persian (fa) نظریه زبان‌های برنامه‌نویسی		17
4	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія мов програмування		15
5	Vietnamese (vi) Lý thuyết ngôn ngữ lập trình		15
6	Italian (it) Teoria dei linguaggi di programmazione		13
7	Polish (pl) Teoria języków programowania		12
8	French (fr) Théorie des langages de programmation		11
9	Russian (ru) Теория языков программирования		11
10	Chinese (zh) 程式語言理論		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Programming language theory" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Programazio-lengoaien teoria		1
2	Persian (fa) نظریه زبان‌های برنامه‌نویسی		1
3	Arabic (ar) نظرية لغات البرمجة		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Proqramlaşdırma dili nəzəriyyəsi		0
5	Bulgarian (bg) Теория на езиците за програмиране		0
6	Catalan (ca) Teoria de llenguatges de programació		0
7	English (en) Programming language theory		0
8	Spanish (es) Teoría de lenguajes de programación		0
9	French (fr) Théorie des langages de programmation		0
10	Croatian (hr) Teorija programskih jezika		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Programming language theory" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Programming language theory		251
2	Persian (fa) نظریه زبان‌های برنامه‌نویسی		215
3	Ukrainian (uk) Теорія мов програмування		162
4	Chinese (zh) 程式語言理論		124
5	Arabic (ar) نظرية لغات البرمجة		123
6	Korean (ko) 프로그래밍 언어 이론		115
7	Azerbaijani (az) Proqramlaşdırma dili nəzəriyyəsi		109
8	Vietnamese (vi) Lý thuyết ngôn ngữ lập trình		90
9	French (fr) Théorie des langages de programmation		86
10	Spanish (es) Teoría de lenguajes de programación		17

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظرية لغات البرمجة
az	Azerbaijani Proqramlaşdırma dili nəzəriyyəsi
bg	Bulgarian Теория на езиците за програмиране
ca	Catalan Teoria de llenguatges de programació
en	English Programming language theory
es	Spanish Teoría de lenguajes de programación
eu	Basque Programazio-lengoaien teoria
fa	Persian نظریه زبان‌های برنامه‌نویسی
fr	French Théorie des langages de programmation
hr	Croatian Teorija programskih jezika
id	Indonesian Teori bahasa pemrograman
it	Italian Teoria dei linguaggi di programmazione
ko	Korean 프로그래밍 언어 이론
pl	Polish Teoria języków programowania
ru	Russian Теория языков программирования
tr	Turkish Programlama dili teorisi
uk	Ukrainian Теорія мов програмування
vi	Vietnamese Lý thuyết ngôn ngữ lập trình
zh	Chinese 程式語言理論

Best Rank

English: #74018 09.2014

Global: #120457 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #76124 10.2015

Global: #53521 12.2011

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