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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Many prior languages existed and some were similar to Java or c++.
I am a retired mainframe assembly language developer, I did that in the 80-90s. Assembly was the first mainframe language, it’s a step above the machine code executed by the chip. Assembly language is what many mainframe languages compiler generates as it’s native to the chipset.
Assembly is crude and rude, you better know WTF you’re doing or bad things happen. Sometimes you can have to read and understand the machine code to debug your code. Principles of Operation is the reference manual for the language.
ETA: One of our programs for class was to be written in machine code to demonstrate our knowledge of the language.
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