High-Level Programming Languages

Computer programming is the process of telling a computer to do certain things by giving it instructions. Since computers do not understand human languages we'll have to use programming languages in order to write those instructions and language translators which will help us to convert the program into machine language which allows us to run our program successfully and get the required output.

In simple terms, machine language is what we called the computer understandable 1s and 0s. we can still write our programs in machine language which will reduce the task of language translators unless we are able to memorize all the machine’s operation codes. That's where programming languages come into play. A programming language is a formal language that has a set of strings that can produce machine code output.

There are two types of programming languages as high-level languages and low-level languages. A programming language is considered to be a low-level language when it is closer to machine code itself or 1s and 0s. when programming language is more closer to English or human languages such language is said to be a high-level programming language.

A high-level language is more user-oriented, easier to read, write and maintain as commands are similar to English. It doesn’t require t a lot of background knowledge to understand programs written in high-level languages. High-level languages use variables, constants, assignments, and expressions with their own vocabulary of words symbols, and sentences known as syntax. Usually, Programs written in a high-level language is shorter than a program written in a low-level language. They also allow programmers to use module libraries and various built-in functions along with them.