COMPARISON OF LEVELS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

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COMPARISON OF LEVELS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
NO.
MACHINE LANGUAGES
LOW LEVEL LANGUAGES
HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES
1
It is directly understood by the hardware
It is not directly understood by the hardware
It is not directly understood by the hardware
2
It is most difficult to understand, since it’s written in binary.
It is less difficult than machine language
It is easier to understand compared to low level language and machine language
3
It offers the best performance since it is directly executed by the computer.
It is equally fast but not as fast as machine language.
It is slower in performance compared to low
level language.
3
It is dependent on the hardware
An assembler is usually needed to translate low level language to machine language.
Compilers or interpreters are required for high level languages.


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