Labels:book | chair | daily | hakham | person | poster | reckoner | sky | table | windowpane OCR: COMPUTER PROGRAMMING 677 How programming evolve from low-levelto high-level lan- FIGURE 12-5 guages? The first computers were programmed without programming Technicians programmed the languages Technicians rewired computer's circuitry to prepare for vari- first computers by changing the ous processing tasks (Figure 12-5) The idea of storing programs in com- circuitry puter memory paved the way for computer programming languages, which allowed programmer to write commands and load them into the computer for execution. Programming languages were very primitive at first, but they evolved through many generations into the computer languages of today What was the first generation of programming languages? Machine languages were the first languages available for programming computers and, theret ...
