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Types of Programming Languages Explained

The document discusses different types of programming languages including machine languages, assembly languages, high-level languages, system languages, scripting languages, domain-specific languages, and visual languages. These types are not mutually exclusive and some languages can fall into multiple categories.

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Types of Programming Languages Explained

The document discusses different types of programming languages including machine languages, assembly languages, high-level languages, system languages, scripting languages, domain-specific languages, and visual languages. These types are not mutually exclusive and some languages can fall into multiple categories.

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Overview

Different languages have different purposes, so it makes sense to talk about different kinds, or
types, of languages. Some types are:

Machine languages, that are interpreted directly in hardware

Assembly languages, that are thin wrappers over a corresponding machine language

High-level languages, that are anything machine-independent

System languages, that are designed for writing low-level tasks, like memory and process
management

Scripting languages, that are generally extremely high-level and powerful

Domain-specific languages, that are used in highly special-purpose areas only


Visual languages, that are non-text based

Esoteric languages, that are not really intended to be used, but are very interesting, funny, or
educational in some way
These types are not mutually exclusive: Perl is both high-level and scripting; C is considered
both high-level and system.

Other types people have identified: Toy, Educational, Very High-Level, Compiled, Interpreted,
Free-Form, Curly Brace, Applicative, Von Neumann, Expression-Oriented, Persistent,
Concurrent, Glue, Intermediate, Quantum, Hybrid. See Wikipedia’s category page on
programming language classificatio

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