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Explain High Level and Low Level Languages?: Examples

The document discusses the differences between high-level and low-level programming languages. High-level languages are easier for humans to read, write and debug. They require compilers or interpreters and have lower memory efficiency. Low-level languages are closer to machine code and are more difficult for humans but easier for computers to understand. They require assemblers and have higher memory efficiency. Examples of high-level languages include Java and Python, while assembly language is an example of a low-level language.

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Explain High Level and Low Level Languages?: Examples

The document discusses the differences between high-level and low-level programming languages. High-level languages are easier for humans to read, write and debug. They require compilers or interpreters and have lower memory efficiency. Low-level languages are closer to machine code and are more difficult for humans but easier for computers to understand. They require assemblers and have higher memory efficiency. Examples of high-level languages include Java and Python, while assembly language is an example of a low-level language.

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Explain High level and low level languages?

Both of these are types of programming languages that provide a set of instructions to a
system for performing certain tasks. Though both of these have specific purposes, they vary
in various ways. In this article, we will discuss the difference between high-level and low-
level languages. But before that, let us first know more about programming languages and
their purpose.

High level languages:


 One can easily interpret and combine these languages as compared to the low-level
languages.
 They are very easy to understand.
 Such languages are programmer-friendly.
 Debugging is not very difficult.
 They come with easy maintenance and are thus simple and manageable.
 One can easily run them on different platforms.
 They require a compiler/interpreter for translation into a machine code.
 A user can port them from one location to another.
 Such languages have a low efficiency of memory. So it consumes more memory than
the low-level languages.
 They are very widely used and popular in today’s times.
 Java, C, C++, Python, etc., are a few examples of high-level languages.

Examples:
Some examples of high-level languages include Perl, BASIC, COBOL, Pascal, Ruby, etc.

Low level languages:


 They are also called machine-level languages.
 Machines can easily understand it.
 High-level languages are very machine-friendly.
 Debugging them is very difficult.
 They are not very easy to understand.
 All the languages come with complex maintenance.
 They are not portable.
 These languages depend on machines. Thus, one can run it on various platforms.
 They always require assemblers for translating instructions.
 Low-level languages do not have a very wide application in today’s times.
Examples:
Some examples of low-level languages include the Machine language and Assembly
language.

DIFFERENCE:

Parameter High-Level Language Low-Level Language

Basic These are programmer- These are machine-friendly


friendly languages that are languages that are very
manageable, easy to difficult to understand by
understand, debug, and widely human beings but easy to
used in today’s times. interpret by machines.

Ease of Execution These are very easy to execute. These are very difficult to
execute.

Process of High-level languages require Low-level language requires


Translation the use of a compiler or an an assembler for directly
interpreter for their translation translating the instructions
into the machine code. of the machine language.

Efficiency of These languages have a very These languages have a very


Memory low memory efficiency. It high memory efficiency. It
means that they consume more means that they consume
memory than any low-level less energy as compared to
language. any high-level language.

Portability These are portable from any A user cannot port these
one device to another. from one device to another.

Comprehensibility High-level languages are Low-level languages are


human-friendly. They are, machine-friendly. They are,
thus, very easy to understand thus, very difficult to
and learn by any programmer. understand and learn by any
human.

Dependency on High-level languages do not Low-level languages are


Machines depend on machines. machine-dependent and thus
very difficult to understand
by a normal user.

Debugging It is very easy to debug these A programmer cannot easily


languages. debug these languages.

Maintenance High-level languages have a It is quite complex to


simple and comprehensive maintain any low-level
maintenance technique. language.

Usage High-level languages are very Low-level languages are not


common and widely used for very common nowadays for
programming in today’s times. programming.

Speed of Execution High-level languages take The translation speed of


more time for execution as low-level languages is very
compared to low-level high.
languages because these
require a translation program.

Abstraction High-level languages allow a Low-level languages allow


higher abstraction. very little abstraction or no
abstraction at all.

Need of Hardware One does not require a Having knowledge of


knowledge of hardware for hardware is a prerequisite to
writing programs. writing programs.

Facilities Provided High-level languages do not Low-level languages are


provide various facilities at the very close to the hardware.
hardware level. They help in writing various
programs at the hardware
level.

Ease of The process of modifying The process of modifying


Modification programs is very difficult with programs is very easy in
high-level programs. It is low-level programs. Here, it
because every single statement can directly map the
in it may execute a bunch of statements to the processor
instructions. instructions.

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