Quote: "Are you sure?
I tought C and Visual Basic where BASIC languages. (Low Level)
And C++ and Java where something else *Object Orientaded* (High Level)
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Actually, the difference between languages that are High, Mid, or Low level is how close the language is to machine code. The higher the level of a language, the further away it is from machine code. If a language is a High level language, that means that it's easy for humans to read, but harder for machines to read. This can mean a small slowdown in performance, because more commands must be interpreted by the language (or compiled by the compiler for that language). BASIC is definitely a high-level language. Mid-level languages are a bit more rigid in their structure and meaning making it a little easier for machines to interpret what they mean. C,C#,C++, and Java would all be considered Mid-level languages. Object-oriented programming is just a type of programming that is different from procedural programming (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming). Low-level languages are very similar to machine code, which means it is very easy for machines to read and execute. Low-level languages are sometimes used in games for routines that must be executed
very fast. Assembly is the best known low-level language.
All that being said, the differences in speed between the levels of languages is becoming smaller and smaller due to better compilers and interpreters.
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