High Level Languages and Low Level Languages [2.1]

Question 1

What is a High Level Language?

Answer 1

A high-level language is a programming language designed to simplify computer programming. It is “high-level” since it is several steps removed from the actual code run on a computer’s processor.

Question 2

What is a Low Level Language?

Answer 2

A low-level language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction of programming concepts and is very close to writing actual machine instructions.

Question 3

Which Level Language is faster to process.

Answer 3

Low Level Language, it only takes one processor clock cycles to execute a line where the High Level language takes multiple.

Question 4

What are some examples of High Level Languages?

Answer 4

Python, Javascript, C++

Question 5

What are some examples of Low Level Languages?

Answer 5

Machine Code, Assembly Language.

Question 6

What are the differences between both of the languages?

Answer 6

High Level looks like structured English, where the low level is unreadable to humans. Low Level Languages are processor dependant, High Languages are not.