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This website will answer any questions someone might have about what are the actual languages, how they work, the most commonly used languages, and the languages that are the easiest to use.

Programming languages are an art. They’ve been around for well over 50 years. Since languages have been produced and certain languages are more popular than others when it comes to certain tasks there is over 2500 languages. Some are in use, and some are not. These languages create basically EVERYTHING you use on a computer. This paper was written in a program that was created and written in a programming language. Even websites that you view were created with a programming language.

The languages are written in programs that are made to accept commands from that type of language. Compiled languages are put into things called compilers to make them executable.

In the next few paragraphs I am going to tell you about a few of the most commonly used languages, and what language is usually said to be easier to use. This information will hopefully be enough for you to start learning how to program and get the materials needed.

C

First and foremost, in many people’s opinions, the C programming language is the best. Many people use the C language. C language was created in 1972 by a man named Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories. The C language is a compiled language. The C language is also a structured programming language, which is a very good reason as to why it is preferred by many experienced programmers.

C++

In the early 1980s a variant of C was formed. This new language was called C++. It was an object-oriented version of C. It was formed in same Bell Laboratories as its predecessor, but was created by a different person named Bjarne Stroustrup. Many companies must have thought this new language was brilliant because it was immediately taken in by Apple Computer, Microsoft Corporation, Borland International, and Sun Microsystems. To this day these companies still use C++ to write software. Some new companies also later tagged along to using C++, such as Amazon.com. Their whole website is written in C++.

BASIC

Another type of language is BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). This language was created in the mid-1960s by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College. It was created to teach people that are learning to become programmers because its so basic to use and understand. It also has some of the main ideas as a lot of other languages that are harder to use. BASIC has had many different forms throughout the years. Each company that has used it has pretty much created its own form of basic, which is why its become so popular. When BASIC first came out the language was a mess. It was interpreted and unstructured, but now it is usually compiled and structured.

Machine Code

Finally, the last language I’ll be talking about is machine code. Machine code is a low-lever programming language when the previous ones that were mentioned are high-level. This language is written in bits that are usually represented by 1s and 0s that create the main instructions for control of a computer. Instructions written in machine code depend on the type of computer. Writing programs in machine code is excruciating because the programmer has to control each bit of information. If you mess up once, then you might as well start over because the whole outcome is going to be different from what you had projected it would be. You can’t really search for your errors either because when written, machine code is only 1s and 0s. In 1952 an American developed assembly language for machine code, which uses terms instead of 1s and 0s that make it easier, but the terms have to be put back into bits in order for it to be executed by the computer.

Which language should you use?

If you want to learn how to program I would suggest you start with BASIC since it is the main language for beginning programmers. I would then suggest you move up to C. When you understand C you should move onto C++. If you plan to be a successful programmer I feel that you definitely need to know how to write in C++ because of the fact that it is so widely used.

Don’t let this page fool you though. It may sound easy to write in these languages, but that’s because the information provided was given by experienced programmers. You will need patience and have to study and read a lot to find out which program is truly the best one for you..

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