Computer Language
A computer language is a formal language made up of a vocabulary and a set of rules that are used to develop computer programs or to communicate with computers.
We use natural languages like Hindi, English, and so on to communicate with one another. In the same way, we need a specific language, known as programming or computer language, that a computer can understand.
COBOL, FORTRAN, and BASIC are a few examples of computer languages.
Types of Computer Language
- Analogy with Natural Language
- Machine Language
- Assembly Language
- High-Level Language
1. Analogy with Natural Language
The goal of the scientific discipline of natural language processing is to teach machines the complex human language, both written and spoken. At the most basic level of abstraction, computer communication consists of a series of bits that combine to generate instructions. The instruction set differs from human language in that it is well-defined and constrained.
While a computer might struggle to convey the same information with a large number of words, humans are able to articulate quite complex notions with just one phrase.
An important aspect of human communication and comprehension is the articulation of analogies. Thus, giving robots this ability would be very beneficial to NLP's objectives. Four related expressions can be used to create an analogy, such as "candy for kids is like alcohol."
2. Machine Language
One kind of low-level language is machine-level language. It is thought that this language predates all others used in computers. Computers often only comprehend the terminology used in digital electronics, which deals with voltage presence and absence.
Two logics that can function in a computer are as follows:
1. Positive Logic: In this, a voltage is represented by a 1 when it exists and a 0 when it does not.
2. Negative Logic: In this case, 0 indicates the presence of voltage while 1 indicates its absence.
3. Assembly Language
The development of machine-level language resulted in the introduction of assembly-level language. The instructions in this computer language are written using symbols, also referred to as acronyms in the industry. Therefore, developing a program in assembly language is easier for people to understand than writing it in machine language.
Symbolic names are employed in this language to represent addresses and data. With the aid of an assembler, the Assembly language code is transformed into Machine language so that the computer can comprehend the binary-converted Assembly language.
4. High-Level Language
The next step up in the evolution of computer languages are called High-Level Languages. These languages' primary objective is to simplify and reduce the error-proneness of programming. In addition to symbols and numbers, these high-level languages also employ phrases and commands.
Compared to low-level languages, high-level programming languages are designed to be easier and simpler for people to use. Their use of English-word-sounding keywords makes coding easier to understand.
Languages used in high-level programming include the following examples:
- C
- C++
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- C#