What is Literal?

The word "Literal" we can heard frequently, specially when you are working with programming language or using a DBMS database or working with some scripting language and so on.

In essence it is programming term and it is used very frequently when code is documented.  the "Literal" denotes a value written exactly as it's meant to be interpreted.

Like In programming terms a variable is a name that can holds different values during the execution of the program. And a constant is a name that represents the same value throughout a program. But a literal is not a name -- it is the value itself.

A literal can be a number, a character, or a string.

 For example, in the expression,

x = 5

x is a variable, and 5 is a literal.

Introduction

In information technology there are thousands of terminologies which has very complicated meaning and pretty difficult to understand their concept. as career progress and we work in various domains we  come across various terms which we do not understand at first go, so here we can share the meaning of those terms and keywords and try to understand what exactly their true meaning.

-Ajeet