Programing language

 

LOW LEVEL LANGUAGE

Set of instructions closer to the machine code that includes the assembler and the binary system. 

  • Examples: Machine Code and Assembly Language. 

HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE

The further it is from the binary code or the complex set of instructions, the higher level it has.

The high level code doesn´t run as fast as the same program written in a low-level language because it must first be interpreted or compiled into machine code.

  • Examples: Java, Python, Prolog, Perl, etc. 

Source code is the list of human-readable instructions that a programmer writes, often in a word processing program when he is developing a program. It`s a set of instructions that a computer program will follow written in high level language.

Object code/compiled code is also refered as the binary code and can be directly executed by the machine after linking. And it´s a low level language. 

  • Compiler: Program that Translates (compiles) the source code into an object code that the process understands and can execute. 
  • Interpreter: Program that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language without previously converting them to an object code or machine code. 


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