PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
CONTENT
- Definition of Programming Language
- Levels of Programming Languages
Definition of Programming Language
A program is a set of instructions that tells the computer what to do. Sometimes the instruction it has to perform depends on what happened when it performed a previous instruction.
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly to a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behaviour of a machine and/or to express algorithm precisely.
Levels of Programming Languages
There are three major levels of programming language:
- Machine Language (ML),
- Low Level Language (LLL) &
- High Level Language (HLL).
Machine Language (ML)
The first generation of programming language, or 1GL, is machine code. It is the only language a microprocessor can process directly without a previous transformation.
Machine code or machine language is a set of instructions executed directly by a computer’s central processing unit (CPU).
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