Programming Languages

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Definition:
The vocabulary and set of grammatical rules necessary to instruct a computer to perform a specific task.

Computers can only execute instructions written in machine language and humans have difficulty writing machine language. Therefore, computer programs were devised which can translate programs written by humans into machine language. Of course, those programs must follow certain conventions. That set of conventions is a programming language. Some well known programming language are FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, and Pascal. www.lib.uidaho.edu/bob_stuff/krud/Glossary.html

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