1. By Kristjan Rebol, 2.Eak-ele

2. Contents: Introduction List of the main high-level programming languages Short presentation of individual high-level languages programming Sources

3. Introduction Programming includes two groups of languages: - low-level (closer to the hardware) - high-level languages (closer to human languages)

4. List of the main high-level programming languages The main high-level languages : FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, C, JAVA, and C Sharp.

5. Short presentation of individual high-level languages programming.

6. FORTRAN used for scientific and mathematical applications. originally developed by IBM in the 1950s. website

7. COBOL one of the oldest programming languages. popular for bussines applications used by governments website

8. used as a teaching language. became widespread in the 70s and 80s, mostly for the non-science students. became widespread in the 70s and 80s, mostly for the non-science students. BASIC website

9. C used to write system software, graphic and commercial programs. developed at the Bell Telephone Labs in 1972. website

10. JAVA is designed to run on the Web. Much of its grammar rules are delivered for C and C Sharp programming languages. It is relatively young. It appeared in 1995. website

11. C Sharp developed by Michrosoft only eight years ago. designed to be a simple language. lots of versions of C Sharp website

12. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_langua ge) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_langua ge) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_lang uage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_lang uage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-sharp