A language is defined as the medium of expression of thoughts. All the human beings in this world communicate with each other by a language. Similarly, computer also needs some expression medium to communicate with others. As we know, a computer a only understand binary numbers that is 10 and 1 to perform various operations but the languages are developed for different types of work on a computer. A computer follows the instruction given by the programmer to perform a specific job. To perform a particular task, programmer prepares a sequence of instructions known as programs. A program written for computer is called Software. The programmed is stored in RAM. The CPU takes one instruction of the programmed at a time from RAM and executes it. The instruction are executed one by one in sequence and finally produce the desired result. From the first generation and now fourth generation of computers there were several programming languages used to communicate with the computer. Here we will go in the detail of the computer language and its types.
A computer language includes various languages that are used to communicate with a computer machine. Some of the languages like programming language which is a set of codes or instructions used for communicating the machine. Machine code is also considered as a computer language that can used for programming. HTML is a computer language or a markup language but not a programming language.Similarly there are different types of languages developed for different type of work to be performed by communicating with the machine. However, all the languages that are now available are categorized into two basic types of languages namely Low level language and High level language.
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