2006-07-18 17:37:17 · 7 answers · asked by Seeker 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Basic
Cobol
Fortran
2006-07-18 17:40:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
A program is a series of inconnected instructions that tells the program how to process manage or work. The language is the way the program is written. The most common for web are java, etc. For regular applications its more commony c++ or some derivitive. Its merely the instructions and code that tell the program how to work. This is not to be confused with human language, English, Spanish etc. A different language is a different way to write a program.
2006-07-19 00:45:33 · answer #2 · answered by accessmemorex 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine (often a computer). Like human languages, programming languages have syntactic and semantic rules used to define meaning. Programming languages are used to facilitate communication about the task of organizing and manipulating information, and to express algorithms precisely. Some authors restrict the term "programming language" to those languages that can express all possible algorithms;[1] sometimes the term "computer language" is used for more limited artificial languages.
Thousands of different programming languages[2] have been created and new ones are created every year. Few languages ever become sufficiently popular that they are used by more than a few people, but professional programmers may use dozens of different languages during their careers.
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2006-07-19 00:41:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A programming language is the language with which you "speak" and "communicate" with your computer.
COBOL [COmmon Business and Office Language] and FORTRAN or Pascal[named after the Frenchman who designed it] are the most basic of programming Languages. All others are, basically, built on these.
Programming languages work on binary mathematics - 1 and 0 [where 1 = switch on and 0 = switch off] which is like the way we did mathematics in kindergarten by opening a finger to add and closing a finger to subtract. Do you see the similarity? Well, just like we found the answer in the number of fingers left open, like for example 2 and two would have us see four fingers, and four minus three would leave us with one finger; the binary function also comes up with the answer in the process itself. Since it's similar to the "finger counting" method, it's also called "digital" [Latin for of the finger] mathematics. As you know, multiplication is an extension of addition and division is an extension of subtraction; so the whole of digital or binary mathematics is simplicity itself!
Now, what is done is to put them into algorithms [algebraic arithmetic] formulae and combine these fromulae to have your machine do a series of tasks in the way you want it to.
I hope that this was simple enough for you to understand the most basic concepts of Programming.
All the best.
2006-07-19 00:57:04 · answer #4 · answered by Raymond 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Programming language is what translates instructions from humans to computers. Programming languages are generally spelled with an initial cap such as: Basic, C, C++, Cobol, Fortran and Java.
2006-07-19 03:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by george 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Machine only understand 0/1 a programming language give us a way to write instruction in English language and then it converted to machine language for executing the instruction.
Programming language is an interface which convert user instruction(by Eng) to machine understandable information.
2006-07-19 00:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by Arnab Dutta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a code used 2 write a program as we use english to talk this code like C Java are used to write programs that could be understood by d computer n implemented
2006-07-19 00:43:32 · answer #7 · answered by explorer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋