期刊的目的是發(fā)表關(guān)于編程語言、系統(tǒng)、結(jié)構(gòu)和理論的文章，介紹原創(chuàng)作品和評論文章。其目的是集中研究編程語言理論的進展，以及仍在調(diào)查中的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)，例如與互聯(lián)網(wǎng)有關(guān)的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)。包括的題目有語法、解析、編譯器、復(fù)雜性、可計算性、語義、自動編程語言、特殊目的語言、編程理論、編程文檔、內(nèi)存管理、微編程、過程控制編程、實時編程、交互式系統(tǒng)編程；串流方式、網(wǎng)路沖浪技術(shù)、復(fù)合超媒體、伺服器管理、路由技術(shù)架構(gòu)、可伸縮網(wǎng)路通訊服務(wù)、網(wǎng)路資源分配的網(wǎng)路經(jīng)濟系統(tǒng)、瓶頸偵測、自適應(yīng)網(wǎng)路服務(wù)、移動運算技術(shù)、網(wǎng)路協(xié)定開發(fā)、分布式電腦語言、基于集群的網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)、網(wǎng)絡(luò)托管服務(wù)等。在所有這些語言、系統(tǒng)和結(jié)構(gòu)中，只有算法和基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施系統(tǒng)的理論和結(jié)構(gòu)，但沒有特定或?qū)ｉT的用途或應(yīng)用程序，才是適當?shù)摹Ｇ皹祟}：計算機語言。

The purpose of the Journal is to publish both articles presenting original work and also review articles, on programming languages, systems, structures, and theories. The objective is to concentrate on advances in programming language theory, as well as infrastructure developments still under investigation, such as those related to the Internet. The topics to be included are syntax, parsing, compilers, complexities, computability, semantics, automatic programming languages, special purpose languages, programming theories, programming documentation, memory management, micro programming, process control programming, real-time programming, programming for interactive systems, streaming methods, Internet surfing technologies, composite hypermedia, server management, routing technique architecture, scalable internet communication services, on-line economic systems for Internet resource allocation, bottleneck detection, adaptive network services, mobile computing techniques, network protocol development, distributed computer languages, cluster based network services, Web hosting services, and so forth. In all these languages, systems and structures, only the theory of algorithmic and infrastructure systems, and structures, but no particular or specialized uses or applications, are appropriate. Former title: Computer Languages.