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Because the object language of compilation has usually been machine language, the term '' Object File '' has come to mean a file containing machine instructions, and sometimes the translated program itself is simply called an ''object''.

''Object language'' should not be confused with '' Object-oriented Language '', which is a particular type of computer Programming Language .

In Linguistics , and in Formal Systems used in Mathematical Logic , object language has a different meaning. Those disciplines make use of Metalanguage s, which are languages for describing the nature of other languages. The language which a metalanguage is used to describe is the object language. It is called that presumably because that language is the object under discussion using the metalanguage.