Take a language like Java. How was it originally created? I can’t wrap my head around how someone invented a computer language to run without having some “prior” language that it allows the first lines to function. Is it just Java all the way down, like someone wrote a single line of Java and then every other line was built on that?
What about the first computer language? What was the basis that that functioned on?
Thanks for any help, I hope that was phrased in a mildly intelligible way.
Edit; I’m trying to think of it like human language: at some point there was a first “word” spoken by someone and understood by another and from there the structure started to be born. What were the first “words” on a computer that led to where we are now?
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Imagine you had a box full of Legos, but they’re all the flat 1×2 pieces. You could probably build anything you wanted, but it’s going to be a ton of work. That’s like the simplest, earliest computer languages, and represents the language the computer actually “understands”.
Newer computer languages are like the bigger, more complex Lego pieces. Instead of building a wall from scratch, you can just use a wall piece or an engine piece. That’s like newer programming languages. They are just bigger Lego pieces that let you build stuff faster, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to smaller Lego pieces that the computer actually understands.
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