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unusual facts about high level programming languages



Programming language generations

The marketing for this generational shift in machines did correlate with several important changes in what were called high level programming languages, discussed below, giving technical content to the second/third-generation distinction among high level programming languages as well, and reflexively renaming assembly languages as first-generation.


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MALPAS Software Static Analysis Toolset

Automatic translators exist for common high-level programming languages such as Ada, C and Pascal, as well as assembler languages such as Intel 80*86, PowerPC and 68000.