Programming languages and their uses

Yes, there are over 300 programming languages, but you don’t need to know them all, and you’ll find that each language serves a specific purpose (or several). Compared to spoken languages, most are pretty easy to learn.

Broadly the computer language can be classified into three categories assembly language, machine language, and high-level language .

Java was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. C++ was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs in 1979 as an extension of the C language.

By purpose, programming languages might be considered general purpose, system programming languages, scripting languages, domain-specific languages, or concurrent/distributed languages (or a combination of these).

Here are three of the most popular computer programming languages: