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The document discusses different types of computer languages including machine language, assembly language, and high-level languages. It also describes translator programs like interpreters and compilers that convert programs between human-readable and machine-readable formats.

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Data Collecetion

The document discusses different types of computer languages including machine language, assembly language, and high-level languages. It also describes translator programs like interpreters and compilers that convert programs between human-readable and machine-readable formats.

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Computer is a machine and it understands only binary language (0 and 1).

To
understand these 0s and 1s, high level languages were developed. Computer
languages can be classified into the following categories machine language,
assembly language and high-level language. Machine language is the only
language that is directly understood by the computer. It is expressed in binary
form, i.e., 0 and 1.

Assembly language uses mnemonic codes or symbols in place of 1’s and 0’s,
which helps in the better understanding of the codes. High-level languages are
simple languages that use English and mathematical symbols like +, -, %, / etc.
for their program construction. They are problem-oriented languages, for e.g., C,
C++, Java etc.

Translator programs are used to convert programs written in human-readable


format into an executable binary code (machine code), which is readable by the
computer. These are of three types interpreter, compiler and assembler.
Interpreter is a translator program that is used to convert a high level language
program into machine language.

It translates the code line-by-line. Compiler is a translator program that is used


to convert a high level language program into machine language. It translates
the whole program at once and generates the object code along with a list of
errors. Assembly language programs are converted into machine language by
the assembler. The output of the assembler program is called object code or
object program, relative to the input source program.
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