Programming Languages

Programming Languages

1. Machine Language

   • composed of bits
   • what the machine directly understands
   • cumbersome
   • Assembly language
     • used English-like abbreviations
     • required translator programs called Assemblers
     • Popular in apps needing minimal memory usage and maximum execution
     • High level languages
       • one statement accomplishes a task
       • translator programs called Compilers
       • Interpreter programs developed to skip compilation
       • types
         • Ada
         • Basic
         • C
         • C++
         • COBOL
         • Fortran
         • Java
         • Objective C
         • Pascal
         • Python
         • C#
         • Swift
           • Swift 2
         • Visual Basic
         • Ruby on Rails
         • Scala
     • Scripting Languages
       • types
         • PHP
         • JavaScript