November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Content preview from Learning Functional Programming in Go
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Five generations of languages
Another way to group programming languages is by their generation.
The first generation (1GL) language consists only of 1's and 0's which represent the on and off positions of electrical switches. The 1GL machine language is difficult for humans to understand.
Assembly language (2GL) allows the programming to user words to represent operations and operands, for example, CMP means compare the data in the AX register with the number 99. The result is stored in the the EFLAGS register and used by the jump (JL) command. 2GL's are specific to a particular processor family, that is, they are machine dependent.
A 3GL is a higher level language and most are not machine dependent. For example, Go is a 3GL. Go abstracts ...