Second-generation programming language

The label of second-generation programming language (2GL) is a generational way to categorize assembly languages.[1][2][3] They belong to the low-level programming languages.

The term was coined to provide a distinction from higher level machine independent third-generation programming languages (3GLs) (such as COBOL, C, or JavaScript) and earlier first-generation programming languages (machine code)[2][4]

  1. ^ "Computer Hope, Generation languages"
  2. ^ a b Brookshear, J. Glenn (2012). Computer science : an overview (11th ed.). Addison-Wesley. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-0-13-256903-3.
  3. ^ Vass, Péter. "Programming Language generations and Programming Paradigms" (PDF).
  4. ^ "What Are Programming Language Generations?". wiseGEEK. Retrieved 2019-06-11.

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