Linotte is an interpreted 4th generation programming language.

The language's goal is to allow French-speaking children and other francophones with little computer science experience to easily learn programming,[1] with the slogan (in French) "you know how to read a book, so you can write a computer program".

Its terms are closer to those used in film or literature, with a program being a book, a variable being an actor, and the screen a canvas.

Keywords that in other languages might be named things "print" or "log" in Linotte are named things like "affiche", French for "display": Similarly, a program can "demande", or ask, to prompt the user to enter a value.

Linotte also supports things like networking and graphics, and even contains a web templating engine that allows the mixing of HTML and Linotte in the same file, much like PHP or JSP.