5 Types of Programming Languages 1. High-Level vs Low-Level Languages High-level languages are closer to human languages. They are easier to read, write, and understand.

An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer’s hardware.

High-level programming languages are ones that are more similar to the English language, while low-level languages are closer to raw machine code, or "binary" language.

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The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming lang… ...