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LaoComputers only understand "machine code", which is a series of 0's and 1's that are "encoded instructions." However, most people do not know how to write this code, and even if they did, they would find it tedious to write entire programs in pure machine code. Programming languages were therefore invented so that it would be easier to program systems without having to remember how to program the underlying machine code. A single line in a programming language might be hundreds of lines of code that could take hours to write manually. Even something as simple as a "printf" command (to write to standard output) saves the programmer from having to write the complex set of instructions that would be required to perform this simple task.
We use programming languages to make writing software easier, faster, and less error-prone.
Each of us (humans) can speak our own language / dialect to communicate with others. When we speak through our most commonly language, the flow of the communication will be much better. But if a speaker for example, communicates differently from what we understand, we would not recognize all the things he / she wants to interpret. Similarly, humans and machines have different languages. A programming language is a systematic language that makes us possible to communicate with the machine / computer. Programming language is the basic knowledge and tool that you will need to create a set of instructions or programs. It uses syntax and other elements in which a computer will follow.
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Does the programming language JAVA has any abberivation?
No. If you need to refer to the language in fewer than four characters, you're out of luck.
Is java a popular programming language?
No, the Java is not machine language. Java is a high-level programming language that compiles to byte code suitable for interpretation into machine code by the Java virtual machine. In other words, you program the virtual machine rather than the physical machine. Once compiled, the byte code can be executed upon any machine with a Java virtual machine implementation.
Is Java a Language or Package?
Actually, it is both. Visual Basic is a Microsoft only programming language. In order to run programs written in VB though, you may need the VB runtime library as a package DLL even if you don't use the language itself.
Difference between high level language and script language?
There is no real difference; a scripting language is a programming language like any other. We use the term script to infer a programming language that does not need to be compiled to a lower-level code before running. Generally speaking, a scripting language is usually a high-level, interpreted programming language.
Explain the statement there is more to java than the language?
All programming languages are abstract things - collections of rules which dictate how symbols may form words, how words may form statements, and how statements may form programs. Programming languages need "other stuff" in order to actually be useful. For most languages this will include either a compiler or an interpreter which can turn source code into executable programs. Java's "other stuff" includes a compiler, which turns Java source code into Java byte code, and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), which allows Java byte code to execute on your computer.
