Some languages are partially visual, but you get to type bits of code into little boxes. These types are not mutually exclusive: Perl is both high-level and scripting C is considered both high-level and system. Esoteric languages, that are not really intended to be used, but are very interesting, funny, or educational in some way.Visual languages, that are non-text based.Domain-specific languages, that are used in highly special-purpose areas only.Scripting languages, that are generally extremely high-level and powerful.System languages, that are designed for writing low-level tasks, like memory and process management.High-level languages, that are anything machine-independent.Assembly languages, that are thin wrappers over a corresponding machine language.Machine languages, that are interpreted directly in hardware.

Technical aspects of languages will consider linguistic structure, expressive features, possibility of efficient implementation, direct support for certain programming models, and similar concerns. Some categorizations focus on technical issues, others look at non-technical issues (markets, hardware platforms, and so on). There may even be different ways to categorize the categorizations. Wikipedia has a categorization page that might be interesting. Chronologically (see Wikipedia, Éric Lévénez’s work, or this really cool timeline)īut if we want to CATEGORIZE languages, we need to look at the look and feel of the language, its execution model, or the kind of programming paradigms most naturally supported.There are at least two ways to LIST programming languages: To get an understanding of the ways we classify programming languages and the different kinds of programming paradigms languages strive to support.

Imperative programming language list