12. Language Design Trend - Recall
Hardwired
circuits
Machine
Level
Assembly
Level
Compiler/
Interpreter
Intermediate
Language
13. Why high level languages
— Increased
◦ Readabillity => maintainability
◦ Developer productivity
— Reduced
— Cost of change
14. Moral of the story
— Code (HL) is written for human beings
(developers) not just for machines
— Any dumb can write the code that
machine can understand. Only a good
programmer can write a code that
fellow programmers can understand