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Computer Languages - School Essays

Computer Languages

Differences in is a topic that many people are not
familiar with. I was one of those kinds of people before I started researching
on this topic. There many different computer languages and each one of them are
similar in some ways, but are also different in other ways, such as: program
syntax, the format of the language, and the limitations of the language.

Most computer programmers start programming in languages such as turbo
pascal or one of the various types of basic. Turbo pascal, Basic, and Fortran
are some of the oldest computer languages. Many of today's modern languages
have been a result of one of these three languages, but are greatly improved.
Both turbo pascal and basic ...

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some, and between others are somewhat similar. When programming in Basic the
user has to type in line numbers before each new line of code. In an updated
version of Basic called QBasic, numbers are optional. Turbo pascal does not
allow the user to input numbers, it has preset commands that seperate each part
of the program. This is similar to QBasic, but is much more sophisticated.
Instead of using the command gosub in Basic, the user would make a procedure
call.

Another new language is C. C is a spinoff of turbo pascal but is
capable of doing more things than turbo. The format and layout are similar, but
the syntax is much more complex than turbo is. When C first came out, there
were many major flaws in the language so a new version had to be put out, C++.
The main addition from C to C++ is the concept of classes and templates. Many
other small flaws were fixed when this new version of C came out also.

Many of the languages have different limitations on the ...

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