The Hierarchy of Programming Languages
April 29th, 2009 | by admin |There are multiple levels of languages that a computer can be programmed with. These computer programming languages are organized in a hierarchy, with the bottom being machine language, or the actual binary code that the computer can understand. The next step up is assembly language, which replaces the binary code with assembly opcodes, which are like mnemonics for people to remember. Next comes the high-level languages, such as Pascal, Java, C++, and other familiar programming languages. These languages have their own syntax and operations, which can be learned by the programmer in order to create vastly complex programs and software, depending on the needs of the programmer.
