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Classification of programming languages
Official AQA 7517 section 4.6.2.
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AqaA LevelComputer ScienceFundamentals of computer systems
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- Classification of programming languages: Show awareness of the development of types of programming languages and their classification into low-and high-level languages. Know that low-level languages are considered to be: • machine-code • assembly language. Know that high-level languages include imperative high-level language. Describe machine-code language and assembly language. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of machine-code and assembly language programming compared with high-level language programming. Explain the term ‘imperative high-level language’ and its relationship to low-level languages.
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Low-level languageImperative high-level language
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- Make comparisons explicit: When asked for advantages and disadvantages, state which language level each point applies to and compare it with the alternative.
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- Confusing assembly language with a high-level language: Assembly language is still low-level because its symbolic instructions remain closely related to machine-code instructions.
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