Labels:book | monitor | reckoner OCR: 6.76 SECTION CHAPTER 1.2 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND PARADIGMS What programming language? Aprogramming language or computer language is set of keywords and grammar rules designed for creating instructions that computer can ultimately process or carry out Most people are familiar with names of programming languages, such as BASIC c Pascal. Fortran, Java, and COBOL But many other pro- gramming languages, such as 8088 assembly, FORTH, LISP APL, and Scratch remain relatively unknown to the general public The program you wrote at the beginning of the chapter to change the text color displayed on your computer screen was written either in DOS script- ing language (Windows) or Bash shell script Mac) Just as an English sentence is constructed from various words and punc- tuation marks that follow se ...
