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What are programming languages?

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What are programming languages?

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- [Instructor] Like human languages, there are different programming languages too. Programming languages are formal languages used to write instructions that computers can understand and execute. They have defined syntax and semantics, and algorithms can be implemented in different languages depending on the use case. Programming languages can be classified using different criteria. This criteria are not exclusive, meaning two programming languages may belong to the same class under one criterion, but different under another. Let's look at the few ways to classify programming languages. For instance, we can classify programming languages based on paradigm. A paradigm is another way to say strategy. All programming languages need to follow some strategy when they are implemented, so we call that a paradigm. So you can classify languages based on their paradigm. Object-oriented languages emphasize the concept of…

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