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As you may have noticed, programming in assembly can be time-consuming and error-prone, so to make programming easier higher-level languages have been developed. These languages abstract away the details of particular processors and allow for the expression of common operations in a more concise and comprehensible manner. Typical early examples of higher-level programming languages are Fortran, Cobol, Algol 60 and Lisp. These days C/C++, Java and Python are the most popular languages. There are more than 1000 programming languages in existence and this number is quickly growing.
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Groote, J.F., Morel, R., Schmaltz, J., Watkins, A. (2021). Compiling higher-level languages. In: Logic Gates, Circuits, Processors, Compilers and Computers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68553-9_6
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