How many programming languages are there today? – Medium
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A software student asked: “How many programming languages are there today? Which language is the best? Why do people have to learn programming languages? Is this absurd? What language do I need to know? ”
I answer: Perhaps there are more programming languages than spoken language in the world. Every few months, someone creates a new programming language somewhere. So, how many programming languages are there. The programming language has evolved from the language of the first generation computer or the digital language of 0 and 1 into the second generation computer language classified as “assembly language” where the code can be written and converted into machine code by a process called translation. Third generation languages have several groups: Command languages such as Cobol, Fortran and Pascal; Object-oriented languages like Java, C ++, and Smalltalk; function languages like Lisp and ML; and logical language like Prolog. Today, students are familiar with fourth generation languages when they design for specialized purposes such as SQL for data queries; Powerbuilder, Delphi, Focus, and Access for database applications; Visual basic and TCL make templates; and HTML 5, and Javascript for web domain applications , etc.
Which programming language is the best?
No “language can be considered the best”because each language serves a purpose and contributes to technology at some point. When I was in school, I learned FORTRAN, COBOL but when I worked, I learned Ada and I think Ada is good, especially in embedded applications. When C and Unix came to allow me to do many things, I thought the language was perfect but everything changed. For every generation of programming languages, there are many new innovations to improve the language better than the previous generation. Today there are many new languages like R, Go, Ruby, Python Objective C, Swift etc. I’m sure there will be more languages to be invented in the near future.
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