A notation resembling a simplified programming language, used in program design; esp. (a) one that is translated by a computer into a programming…

Computing. The programming language in which a program or procedure is written. Cf. object language, n. 3.

a program written in a language other than machine code, usually a high-level language (cf. object program n. at object, n. compounds 2).

= pseudocode, n.; sometimes also explained as ‘Pascal code’ (see Pascal, n. 5).