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Learn: Differences between Computer Lowe Level and High Level programming languages

I have already discussed about the Lowe Level and High Level programming language in the last
post [Computer programming languages], in this post I am going to write about the differences
between Low Level and High Level computer programming languages.

Low Level Vs High Level programming languages

Here, I am focusing on the following 7 points:

1) Platform Dependencies
First, you should know about the platform, here platform means Computer Hardware (Computer
configuration).

Low Level programming languages are platform dependent that means programs written in Low
Level language can run on the same hardware with same configuration, you cannot run them on
hardware that has different configuration.

High Level programming languages are platform independent that means programs written in
High Level language can run on different hardware with different configuration.

Remember: High Level programming languages are platform independent that doesn’t mean
they are operating system independent. System hardware configuration may be different but
Operating systems should be same.
2) Speed
Low Level language programs are faster than High Level language programs as they do not need
to convert.

They have less number of syntaxes, functions, keywords, class libraries.

3) Easiness
Low Level language programs are not as easy as High Level language. There are only two Low
Level programming languages Binary and Assembly. Binary has only 0’s, 1’s, while Assembly has
some difficult type symbols which are knows as mnemonics.

But, the High Level languages programs are easy to write, read, modify and understand.

4) Performance
Since, Low Level Languages programs are faster, so performance of Low Level languages
programs are better than the High Level languages programs.

5) Translation
Low Level language Binary does not need translation as Binary codes are Machine codes and
computer understands them without any translations.

Assembly needs an Assembler to translate an Assembly program to its equivalent Binary/Machine

Code.

High Level Languages are translated by the compilers or interpreters; sometimes (in case of some
programming languages) both are required to get the Object/Binary file.

6) Flexibilities
High Level languages are flexible to read, edit, debug, understand etc but Low Level Languages
are not so easy to handle.

High Level languages have huge libraries with a rich set of Data types, keywords, functions etc so
these languages are really good to develop an application with many great features using less
effort and resource.

7) Support
Low Level languages have less support than High Level Languages. There may be lesser number
of professionals (community) in support of Low Level languages as comparisons to High Level
Language support.
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