What are Programming languages?
A vocabulary and set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer to perform specific tasks. The term programming language usually refers to high-level language such as BASIC, C, C++, C#, COBOL , FORTRAN, Ada and Pascal. Each language has a unique set of keywords (words that it understands) and a special syntax for organizing program instructions. A programming language is a special language programmers use to develop software programs, scripts or other sets of instructions for computers to execute. High-level programming languages, while simple compared to human languages, are more complex than the languages the computer actually understands, called machine language . Each different type of CPU has its own unique machine language.