COMPUTER PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS
WHAT IS PROGRAMMING
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1st generation language
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2nd generation language
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3rd generation language
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -By 1950, computers were being programmed in assembly language. As we saw earlier, one line in Assembly Language is translated into one machine instruction by a program called an assembler. At this time, computers were so expensive and slow that this was the only feasible method of programming.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this generation, assembly language and high-level programming languages like FORTRAN, COBOL were used.
Detailed explanation-3: -Assembly languages are specific to computer and CPU. The term is used in the distinction between Machine Languages (1GL) and higher-level programming languages (3GL, 4GL, etc.) Also known as a 2nd generation language.
Detailed explanation-4: -Assembly languages or asm is a low-level language that is used to implement the code in machine code which directly interacts with the system hardware. It is a second-generation language based on the machine code which is a first-generation language.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.