History of Programming Languages

Machine Language This is in fact the only language that a computer (or beter said a processor) understands and can execute (directly into the hardware). Machine language exists solely out of the binary symbols 0 and 1 and is thus inappropriate for use by humans. Every computer program written in any programming language must be converted to machine language by either a compiler or an interpreter. Furthermore, machine language depends on the processor and is thus not portable in any way.