期刊的目的是發表關于編程語言、系統、結構和理論的文章，介紹原創作品和評論文章。其目的是集中研究編程語言理論的進展，以及仍在調查中的基礎設施建設，例如與互聯網有關的基礎設施建設。包括的題目有語法、解析、編譯器、復雜性、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、內存管理、微編程、過程控制編程、實時編程、交互式系統編程；串流方式、網路沖浪技術、復合超媒體、伺服器管理、路由技術架構、可伸縮網路通訊服務、網路資源分配的網路經濟系統、瓶頸偵測、自適應網路服務、移動運算技術、網路協定開發、分布式電腦語言、基于集群的網絡服務、網絡托管服務等。在所有這些語言、系統和結構中，只有算法和基礎設施系統的理論和結構，但沒有特定或專門的用途或應用程序，才是適當的。前標題：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.