"Level" of Programming
Languages
Programming languages come in
several levels of complexity depending on how many instructions you have
to give in order to get something done. In general, the higher the
level, the fewer lines of code that has to be written to get something
done.
Examples:
Assembler (very low)
C
(middle)
Fortran
(upper middle)
IMSL
(functions used
in fortran)
Matlab
Mathematica
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