{"id":21957,"date":"2015-01-10T18:20:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=21957"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:54:00","slug":"a-programming-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/a-programming-language\/","title":{"rendered":"A Programming Language&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a-programming-language.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22053\" alt=\"a-programming-language\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/a-programming-language.png\" width=\"275\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A language is a medium of communication between two things, living or non-living. Imagine a world without any languages, communication won&#8217;t exist. Humans are a developed species and communication is necessity for development. Just like two people communicate, computers also communicate(they have a brain too, sort of). A programming language in simple terms, is a way of communicating with a computer. We can give instructions to any machine and not just a computer, using a programming language. Of course, just like we have various languages like Hindi, English, Spanish etc, more than one programming languages have been developed too, each having different usage and features.<\/p>\n<p>Programming languages are quite similar to our normal languages, yet completely different. Some famous ones are C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Python, PHP, Ruby and many more among the thousands developed. Just like Latin(or Greek, or Sanskrit, whichever one you find unobjectionable) is considered the mother of all modern languages, similarly C is considered the mother of all modern programming languages.Why ? It will be discussed in my following posts. It was developed by <em>Dennis Ritchie<\/em> of<em> AT&amp; T Bell Labs<\/em>\u00a0in the early 1980s and is one of the most widely used programming language.<\/p>\n<p>#FACT :\u00a0Even before computers were invented in the twentieth century, programming existed. There were two kinds of programming languages: formal and informal, depending upon what the developer was wearing at the time the language was written.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/information-technology\">Click here for government certification in Information Technology<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A language is a medium of communication between two things, living or non-living. 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