Computer Language

Questions & Answers

Q. What do you mean by Computer Language?
>> The computer language is defined as the code or syntax which is used to write programs or any specific applications that helps us to communicate with the computer. Some computer languages are C, C++, Perl, Python, Java etc.

Q. Why we need a computer language?
>> To communicate with the computers, we need some languages. These languages are known as computer languages.

Q. Explain the two types of Computer Language.
>> Computer languages are divided as :
1. Low Level Language:- They are easy to understand by the computer but difficult for programmers to read, write and understand.
2. High Level Language:- They are very similar to human languages.Therefore, they are easy to read, write and understand for programmers.

Q. Explain the types of Low level language.
>> There are two types of Low level language as -
1. Machine Language: A Computer can only understand the Machine Language that are written in series of 0's and 1's only (also known as Binary digits). It is more difficult to understand and use by the humans.
2. Assembly Language: It is a symbolic programming language that uses letter codes instead of binary digits.
Example:- For 'Addition', the Mnemonics 'ADD' may be used.

Q. What do you mean by Language Processor or Language Translator ?
>> A Language Translator or Language Processor is a translator software that converts the code of any languages into machine code.

Q. Why we need a Language Translators ?
>> A Computer can only understands the machine language. Therefore, we need a language translator that can convert the codes into machine code.

Q. Explain the following:-
a) Assembler
b) Interpreter
c) Compiler
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