Programming Languages

What can computers do for you? Computers can execute tasks very rapidly, but in order to achieve this they need an accurate description of the task. They can handle a greater amount of input data than you can. But they can not design a strategy to solve problems for you. So if you can not figure out the procedure that solve your problem computers cannot help you. The Computers own language. Computers do not understand any of the natural languages such as English, French or German. Their proper language, also called machine language, is only composed of two symbols “0” and “1”, or power “on” - “off”. They have a sort of a dictionary containing all valid words of this language. These words are the basic instructions, such as “add 1 to some number”, “are two values the same” or “copy a byte of memory to another place”. The execution of these basic instructions are encoded by hardware components of the processor.