What are programming languages?

What are computer languages? Describe high-
level and low-level languages.
A set of words and symbols used to write programs is called programming language. It is a means of communication between a user and the computer.
These languages are used to develop computer software. Different programming languages are used
to write different types of programs.
Type of programming languages
There are two types of computer programming
languages:
1. Low-level languages
2. High-level languages
1. Low level languages
Low-level languages are near to computer hardware
and far from human languages. The two low-level
languages are machine language and assembly
language.
1. machine language
A type of language in which instructions are written
in binary form is called machine language. It is the
only language that is directly understood by the
computer. It is the fundamental language of the
computer.
1. Assembly language
Assembly language is a low-level language. It is one
step higher than machine language. In assembly
language, symbols are used instead of binary code.
These symbols are called mnemonics. For example
sub instruction is used to subtract two numbers.
Assembly language is also called symbolic language.
2. High level languages
A type of language that is close to human languages
is called high level language. High-level languages are
easy to understand. Instructions of these languages
are written in English-like words such as input and
print etc.
Examples
1. BASIC
2. FORTRAN
3. COBOL
4. C/C++
5. JAVA
6. VISUAL BASIC

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