How many types of Programming Languages do you know exist ???
What Is Programming Language?
As we have already mentioned and explained programming languages in our previous blog, let’s now delve into their types. There are many different types and categories of programming languages: Procedural, Functional, Object-Oriented, Scripting, Logic etc.
A programming language is a way for the Developers or Programmer to communicate with computers and other devices(IOT) using machine understandable code.
There are many programming language available across the world, each language is created for specific features and when the language is written it is required to be translated into bytecode and machine code which the computer can then perform.
Different Types Of Programming Language
Now let us look at the different ways these programming languages can be grouped and categorised. There was many ways we can grow these languages based on their behaviour, execution style, structure and many other parameters. The diagram below shows some the common ways to define and group the programming languages as Procedural, Functional,Logic based, OOPs, Scripting etc to name a few.
