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The following are the characteristics of a programming language

1. Readability: A good high-level language will allow programs to be written in some ways that resemble a quite-English description of the underlying algorithms. If care is taken, the coding may be done in a way that is essentially self-documenting.

2. Portability: High-level languages, being essentially machine independent, should be able to develop portable software.

3. Generality: Most high-level languages allow the writing of a wide variety of programs, thus relieving the programmer of the need to become expert in many diverse languages.

4. Brevity: Language should have the ability to implement the algorithm with less amount of code. Programs expressed in high-level languages are often considerably shorter than their low-level equivalents.

5. Error checking: Being human, a programmer is likely to make many mistakes in the development of a computer program. Many high-level languages enforce a great deal of error checking both at compile-time and at run-time.

6. Cost: The ultimate cost of a programming language is a function of many of its characteristics.

7. Familiar notation: A language should have familiar notation, so it can be understood by most of the programmers.

8. Quick translation: It should admit quick translation.

9. Efficiency: It should permit the generation of efficient object code.

10. Modularity: It is desirable that programs can be developed in the language as a collection of separately compiled modules, with appropriate mechanisms for ensuring self-consistency between these modules.

11. Widely available: Language should be widely available and it should be possible to provide translators for all the major machines and for all the major operating systems.

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