COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -This generation of languages is machine independent and has to be translated into machine language by a translator. The translator takes high level primitives and compiles a sequence of machine instructions to perform the required function.
Detailed explanation-2: -Machine languages are so closely related to the structure of a particular computer that they are said to be machine dependent. Programs written in machine language are not portable, that is, they may not be run on other computers with different machine languages.
Detailed explanation-3: -machine language (i.e., first-generation language), assembly languages (i.e., second-generation language), Cobol, Fortran, PL/I (i.e., third-generation language), MS Access, PowerBuilder (i.e., fourth-generation language), and.
Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of common and historical third-generation programming languages are ALGOL, BASIC, C, COBOL, Fortran, Java, and Pascal.
Detailed explanation-5: -The result was ALGOL (ALGOrithmic Language) 58, a more general form of FORTRAN, and the first language designed to be machine independent.