{"id":22199,"date":"2016-12-31T09:24:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T09:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/?p=22199"},"modified":"2024-09-04T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T07:38:09","slug":"difference-between-high-level-and-low-level-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/difference-between-high-level-and-low-level-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference between High-level and Low-level languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Difference between High-level and Low-level languages<\/h2>\n<p>Let&#8217;s learn the differences between high-level and low-level languages. The basic types of programming languages are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High-level languages<\/li>\n<li>Low-level languages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The programmer should adhere to the grammar of a programming language, in order to make the computer work and execute the program instructions.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>High-level language<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>High-level language syntax looks similar to natural language like English, and it can be better understood by humans. They are easier to learn and require less time to write programs.<\/p>\n<h2>High-level vs Low-level Languages<\/h2>\n<p>The main difference between the high-level language and the low-level language is that programmers can easily understand the high-level language compared to machines. Machines can easily understand low-level language in comparison to humans.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the differences are as follows:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>High-Level Language<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Low-Level Language<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A high-level language is a programmer-friendly language. High-level source code looks similar to the English language. It contains easy-to-read program syntax and can be better understood by humans.<\/td>\n<td>A low-level language is a machine-friendly language. The programmer should have knowledge of the inner details of the computer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Examples are Java, C++, COBOL, Fortran, etc.<\/td>\n<td>Examples are Machine language, Assembly languages like ARM, MIPS, x86<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A high-level language is simple to debug.<\/td>\n<td>A low-level language is tough to understand and debug.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A high-level language is simple to maintain.<\/td>\n<td>A low-level language is complex to maintain comparatively.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>A high-level language is independent of the computer. It is portable from computer to computer. High-level language can run on any platform.<\/td>\n<td>A low-level language is machine-dependent and non-portable.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Difference between High-level and Low-level languages Let&#8217;s learn the differences between high-level and low-level languages. The basic types of programming languages are as follows: High-level languages Low-level languages The programmer should adhere to the grammar of a programming language, in order to make the computer work and execute the program instructions. High-level language High-level language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[661],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22199"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24112,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22199\/revisions\/24112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.testingdocs.com\/questions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}