Language-agnostic
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Language-agnostic, language-neutral, language-independent, or cross-language may refer to:
Language agnostic
"Language agnostic" describes a software development paradigm where a particular language is chosen because of its appropriateness for a particular task (taking into consideration all factors, including ecosystem, developer skill-sets, performance, etc.), and not purely because of the skill-set available within a development team.
For example, a Java development team might choose to use Ruby or Perl for some development work, when Ruby or Perl would be more appropriate than Java.
Computing
- Language-independent specification
- Cross-language information retrieval, referring to natural languages, not programming languages
- Language independent datatypes