Different languages were designed by different people, obviously.
Fortran and Cobol are two old and successful languages.
To do high level tasks
high level programming languages are languages that are given by the programmer to the system as a input and they are understandable by a programmer
Three type of languages High level Mid level Low level
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 level programming languages are used to instruct computers to perform complex tasks with a minimum number of instructions.
high level and low level
High level languages cant be understood by the computer as it performs all tasks in binary form. So its necessary to convert high level language into machine oriented language
High-level and low-level.
There is no such program. Low level languages cannot be converted to high level languages. It's one-way only.
The term high-level refers to the amount of abstraction between the code you write and the native language of the machine. Low-level code is a symbolic code that maps 1:1 with the machine code, thus assembly is a low-level language. All other languages that employ a compiler or interpreter to create the machine code are considered high level languages. However, C and C++ are examples of high-level languages that also allow low-level programming, and are often called mid-level languages for that reason.
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.