Yes.
1.First Generation Programming LanguageFirst generation of programming language refers to machine language. Machine language is lower level language which uses object code (some times also known as machine code). Object code is the combination of binary digits. These languages directly talk to hardware.2.Second Generation Programming LanguageSecond generation of languages is also low level language which is known as assembly language. Assembly languages are the interface between Machine level languages and High level languages.3.Third Generation Programming LanguageThird Generation programming languages are High level Programming languages like JAVA & C.4.Fourth Generation Programming LanguageThis is the set of current generation programming languages. These languages are similar or closer to human languages.General characteristics of 4GL are:i.Closer to human languagesii.Portableiii.Database supportiveiv.simple and requires less effort than 3GLv.Non proceduralDifferent types of 4 GL are:a. Query Generatorb. Report generatorc. Form Generatord. Application Generatore. GUI Generatorf. Relational Database Manager5.Fifth Generation Programming LanguageLanguages used for writing programs for Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network, Plasma Computing etc. come under 5GL. This is the future of programming language.
high level and low level
Yes, that is correct. Second-generation languages, also known as assembly languages, provide a low-level interface between software and hardware. They use mnemonic codes and symbolic names to represent machine code instructions, making programming closer to the hardware level compared to high-level languages.
High level languages are easier for humans to read and program in. They are usually machine independent, and most have a wide variety of programming libraries available for common functions. Low level languages are usually machine specific, such as assembly languages. They lack programming libraries.
We can't even go beyond the third generation. The first generation languages are all the native machine code languages. The second generation languages are the low-level symbolic languages such as assembly language. The third generation languages are all the high-level symbolic languages, such as C, C++, Java, Pascal, Cobol and so on. There are no fourth generation languages. The term "fourth generation" was first used by marketing types to make their third generation languages seem superior to other third generation languages, regardless of what features they actually provided. While there have been several attempts to re-classify third-generation languages, there is no standardised convention and thus no way to compare languages objectively by generation alone. Languages are best classified by the paradigms they support (procedural, structured, object-oriented, functional, logical and so on) and/or the domains they operate within (general purpose programming, artificial intelligence programming, and so on).
Machine code is first generation. Low-level, machine-dependent, symbolic languages such as assembly language are second generation. All high-level, machine-independent languages are third generation. Fourth and fifth generation don't actually have any meaning since there is no "standard" to define these terms, although they are often used to classify specific types of third-generation languages.
Languages are usually classified at two levels, low level programming and high level programming, although some experts also make a distinction of very high level languages and very low level languages. So, depending on who you ask, there are either two, three, or four. The most common set is probably three: low, high, and very high.
High, low and middle refers to the amount of abstraction within the programming language. Computers only understand their own native code, what we call machine-level code, or simply machine code. Writing machine code is extremely difficult because it is written entirely in binary. To make things easier, programmers use programming languages which the computer can easily convert into its own native machine code simply by programming it to perform the conversion for us. These programs are known as assemblers, compilers or interpreters depending on how the conversion is performed. Low-level languages have very little abstraction and use assemblers to perform the translation. Thus all assembly languages are considered low-level languages. They are also known as second generation languages, where machine code is the first generation language. All other languages are third generation languages. Although there have been attempts to re-classify some of the third-generation languages with higher generations (fourth, fifth, etc), these terms have no actual meaning and have never been standardised. All third-generation languages (and above) are known as the high-level languages. These usually have an extremely high degree of abstraction, such that the code you write bears little resemblance to the machine code. Middle-level languages are really just high-level languages that have a lower level of abstraction than most other high-level languages. If you were to list all high-level programming languages in descending order of abstraction, middle-level languages would be at or near the bottom of the list. C and C++ are typical examples. Generally, a middle-level language is a high-level language where there is very rarely the need to use a more low-level language. Both C and C++ fall into this category.
Low-level languages are one of two major types of programming languages. They are more similar to machine language, which is the language that computers understand directly; as opposed to high-level languages which are similar to English as humans speak.
Programming languages can be categorized into low-level and high-level languages. Low-level languages, like machine code and assembly language, are closer to the computer's hardware and are more complex to write but offer more control over the system. High-level languages, like Python and Java, are easier to write and understand, but are further from the hardware and offer less control. The hierarchy of programming languages is based on their level of abstraction and how close they are to the hardware.
FORTRAN is a third generation language.Note: I don't know what these generations are, but I'm quite sure that Fortran is one of the oldest high-level programming languages, as are Cobol and Algol.
It mustn't be Assembly (or machine code). Unlike low-level languages, high-level programming languages may use natural language elements (easy syntax), be more user-friendly, have simple keywords, and other concepts that deem it easier to utilize than low-level languages.