Programming languages
Classification (Cont.)
High-level Language
This is the type of programming langauge that is used most
of the time. It's possible for the machine to translate it to
machine instructions, and humans can also understand it
with some practice. There are thousands of programming
languages, but only a few are popular, for example Pascal, C,
C++, Visual Basic, and Java. You will soon see many
examples of Java programs.
Human Language
The problem is that computers can not understand human
languages very well. Many researchers have been working
hard for 40 years on this problem, but the progress is slow.
Example: English, Spanish, French,…