High Level Languages in Software Development

A software developer must by the very nature of interaction with a computer, utilize a programming language. The language is simply a means to organize and specify that algorithm functions occur when necessary to achieve a given outcome. There are many versions of languages from both a historical and current context; however, most computer languages can be broadly grouped as either high level or low level. Low level languages are commonly called "machine language" or closely resemble that type of notation in both operation and code used to implement an algorithm. These low-level languages implement the operations used by underlying hardware. High level languages by contrast are used to group and simplify statements and operations of low level languages so that the task of coding by a software developer is simplified.

High level languages allow a problem to be solved through operations by abstracting...
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