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High -level languages: Third Generation

• Combines algebraic expressions and English symbols.
• The high-level languages are so called because each statement in these languages generates multiple statements at the machine-language level.
• It requires mush faster, more efficient compilers to translate higher-level languages into machine codes.
• Advantage: CPU-independent.
• Disadvantage: computers do not understand.

Different High Level Languages

• Some of the high-level languages available include:
• FORTRAN for scientific programming,
• COBOL for business data processing,
• LISP for list processing,
• C for systems programming,
• Prolog for artificial intelligence,
• ADA for real-time distributed systems,
• Smalltalk for graphical user interfaces and object-oriented programming, and
• C++ for object-oriented programming.