LEVELS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
Programming languages are of three levels; they are:
- Machine language
- Assembly language (Low level language)
- High level language.
- Machine Language
This is a low-level programming language that can be directly understood and obeyed by a machine (computer) without conversion (translation). Machine languages are different for each type of CPU. It is the computer’s native (binary i.e. 0’s and 1’s) language and is difficult to read and understand by humans. Machine language is referred to as the first-generation programming language because it was the earliest computer programming language. Programmers commonly use more English-like languages (called high-level languages) such as BASIC, C++, Java etc., to write programs which are then translated into machine language by an assembler, compiler or interpreter.
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