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When studying programming languages, it is important to understand the different generations of languages.

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Now, in this lecture, we will explore these generations in more detail.

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First generation languages.

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These are the lowest form of languages represented by binary code consists of ones and zeros.

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They are often unreadable by humans and are commonly referred to as machine languages or binaries.

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Distinguishing data from instructions can be challenging at this level due to the uninformative of the

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content.

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Second generation languages, also known as assembly languages.

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These languages are one step closer to machine language and assembly language Use mnemonics, which

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are short and memorable character sequences to represent specific bit patterns or opcodes.

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Programmers use these mnemonics to remember the associated instructions.

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An assembler is a tool that translates assembly language programs into machine language for execution.

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Assembly languages also include directives that go with the assembler in organizing code and data in

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the final binary.

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Third generation languages.

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These languages introduce keywords and constructs that make programming more expressive and resemble

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natural languages to some extent.

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Third generation languages are typically platform independent, allowing programmers to write code that

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can run on different systems.

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However, programs written in these languages may still have platform dependencies if they utilize features

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specific to a particular operating system.

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Examples of third generation languages include Python, C, C, Sharp and Java.

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Compilers are used to translate programs written in third generation languages into either assembly

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language or machine language.