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Are Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Forth high level programming languages?


Are Fortran, Cobol, Basic and Forth high level programming languages?

And if not, what where the first high level programming languages?

Which were the first object-oriented languages?


Solution

  • High-level isn't a binary value. There are a whole range of languages in a spectrum from low-level to high-level.

    The languages you named are higher level than assembly, but lower level than Lisp.

    According to Wikipedia:

    The first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer was Plankalkül, created by Konrad Zuse.