Difference between package and language

@ashraf7 (851)
India
November 23, 2006 9:53am CST
What is the difference between package and language in a computer?
1 response
@mvsrao (4365)
• India
23 Nov 06
A computer language can be used to solve problems thru programming . A computer package is made for a particular set of tasks . it has limited scope for programming . BASIC , Pascal , C , Fortran , COBOL are examples for computer languages . D-base , Lotus are examples for packages .