Computer Languages

Computer Languages


By Nicholas Soer


     Differences in computer languages 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 are languages that are easy to understand and the

syntax is very easy and straightforward. In Basic when printing to the screen

you simply type the word 'print', in turbo pascal you would type 'writeln'.

These are very simple commands that the computer executes.  To execute a line of

code in a language such as C, or C++, you would have to type in much more

sophisticated lines of code that are much more confusing than the previous two.


     The format and layout of the various languages are very diverse between

some, and between others are somewhat similar.  When programming in Basic the

user has to type in line numbers before each new line of c
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