Computers: What is a Programming Language?

An introduction to different programming languages.

  The programming language is the root or the mother of all computer systems running around in today’s computer environment. Whether its a small convenient stores, large grocery stores, departmental store, or any other sort of business. The software applications are  all over the place. Computer is a machine who follows the instructions written in format understands by the processor. This language is called the programming language. In today’s computer world. There are different programming languages . Some programming languages are used to develop websites. Some are used for client server that is the computer based software and some are used for to program processors which is called the machine language. On top of that there are certain tools which help developers make the application quick and easy.These tools are called Rapid application development tools.

    This is the time of Internet. We find websites of almost each and everything exist in this world. The information is vast and websites is the only way to send, receive and read information apart from other communication soft-wares. Developing websites is easy now a days. The basic language used to create simple websites is called “HTML” which stands for hyper text markup language. Now we can find many tools which are used to develop websites as quickly as possible. These website development tools saves time because they have build in HTML features which help developers create websites in no time. There are other scripting tools used to put scripts on the websites, for example the hit counter, validating user log in, number of users visited the websites. The other type of programming language is generally called the server side programming. They are generally used to integrate database to save user and other information present at the website, for example the university database website must save all the information related to student’s academic record. This information is saved in the database working at the back end of the database.

     The other type of programming language generally known as the client server programming. This language is used to develop client server or two tier applications. These applications run on computer like any other software, and if required by the client they have the ability to communicate with other computers or work stations. Some times each computer or workstation is privileged to only selected users, for example the HR manager could have his own log in credentials to log in to HR system. He cannot lo gin to Inventory management system. Other aspects of client server system is the integration of the database. Usually the database resides on the database server and the application talks to the database server through the database connection facility used in programming the application. These software can cornet to the database even at the remote location we could be with in the same city or some other city or even some other country. Now a days there are front end development tools used to develop client server applications. These tools have built-in interface development features which saves time in developing them. They are fully featured tools and have the components ready to use in the forms or the interface.

  The machine language is the most difficult to work with. The machine is the low language works at the processor level. It controls the actions performed by the processor. This language is the most difficult of all. No special tools are provided in general at this time. The processor companies selects the best to be the coder of this language. Lot of testing is required to know if the logic is right. The machine language plays almost the most important part. What ever the tools are used to develop other applications, and everything inside the computers are processed by this language. It requires high skills to code this language, because this is the root of all the programs running on the computers. This language generally translates user actions into the machine readable code to perform certain actions, for example saving a document on the hard disk has some machine language code to make it done.

  The new technologies and programming languages are introduced day by day. The only way to learn new languages easily is to know the logic behind all the tools and actions performed by the computers. This is the key to success for programmers which require the use of different tools in their work environment.

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