COMPUTER FUNDAMENTALS

COMPUTER SOFTWARE

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which generation of languages started in the 1950s?
A
First
B
Second
C
Third
D
Fourth
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Second Generation: Assembly Language Nearly all computer systems have an assembly language available for use. Assembly language was developed in the mid-1950s and was considered a great leap forward because it uses mnemonic codes, or easy-to-remember abbreviations, rather than numbers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Third generation languages (3GLs). 3GLs are called procedural languages or high level languages.

Detailed explanation-3: -3GLs are more abstract than previous generations of languages, and thus can be considered higher-level languages than their first-and second-generation counterparts. First introduced in the late 1950s, Fortran, ALGOL, and COBOL are examples of early 3GLs.

Detailed explanation-4: -3. The third-generation languages, or 3GL, are high-level languages, such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Visual Basic. 4. The fourth-generation languages, or 4GL, are languages that consist of statements similar to statements in a human language.

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