List of High-Level Computer Languages

In this article, we shall check some high-level Computer Languages for Bank Exams.

Questions related to the various High-level languages have been asked in the past in the bank exams and is one of the most important topics from the examination point of view.

There are three major posts for which the bank exams are conducted. This includes:

• Bank PO
• Bank Clerk
• Bank SO

In today’s world, everything is computerised; the banking sector is also getting computerized because it makes the work easier and faster to deliver.

To store a huge database the bank needs storage devices of huge memory and to maintain these storage devices they need people who are good at handling these types of equipment, people who are good at DBMS (Database Management System).

To make the working paper-free, fast and efficient, the bank will need application software and to maintain them; they will also need IT professionals who are good at programming.

A program written in any of these languages in one particular computer can easily be used on another computer.

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Important High-Level Computer Languages for Bank Exam Preparation

C Language

C is a general-purpose computer programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, and remains very widely used and influential. By design, C’s features cleanly reflect the capabilities of the targeted CPUs. It has found lasting use in operating systems, device drivers, protocol stacks, though decreasingly for application software

• It was designed by Dennis Ritchie.
• Developed by Dennis Ritchie and Bell Labs.
• File extension is .c Example” HelloWorld.c”.
• The extension of C++ is from C language.
• C is not an Object-Oriented Language.
• It is used to write System Software, Application Software.
• UNIX was written in C language.

JAVA

JavaScript, often abbreviated JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. As of 2022, 98% of websites use JavaScript on the client side for webpage behavior, often incorporating third-party libraries. All major web browsers have a dedicated JavaScript engine to execute the code on users’ devices.

• Java was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems.
• File extension .java Example (HelloWorld.java).
• After Oracle bought Sun, Oracle became the owner of Java (JVM and JDK).
• Android applications can be developed using Java.
• It is an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Language.
• Java is not platform dependent.

SQL

SQL is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system, or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system.

• SQL stands for ”Structured Query Language”.
• Developed by IBM.
• SQL became a standard of (ANSI) American National Standards Institute in 1986.
• Used for database related work.

HTML

HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

• HTML stands for “Hypertext Markup Language”.
• Developed by W3C & WHATWG.
• File extension .htm and .html  Example (HelloWorld.html or HelloWorld.htm).
• Used to make websites.
• HTML is a scripting language.

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Visual Basic

The original Visual Basic is a third-generation event-driven programming language from Microsoft known for its Component Object Model programming model first released in 1991 and declared legacy during 2008. Microsoft intended Visual Basic to be relatively easy to learn and use.

• Designed and developed by Microsoft.
• It is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language.
• File extension is .vb Example (hello.vb).
• IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is Visual Studio.

FORTRAN

Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

Fortran was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, and subsequently came to dominate scientific computing. It has been in use for over six decades in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, geophysics, computational physics, crystallography and computational chemistry. It is a popular language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that benchmark and rank the world’s fastest supercomputers

• Stands for “Formula Translation”.
• Designed by John Backus.
• Developed by John Backus and IBM.
• File extensions are .f,  .fo, .f90, .f95, .f03, .f08, .f15.
• Used for engineering calculation, mathematical operations.
• FORTRAN is a general-purpose imperative programming language.

ALGOL

ALGOL is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in textbooks and academic sources for more than thirty years.

In the sense that the syntax of most modern languages is “Algol-like”,it was arguably more influential than three other high-level programming languages among which it was roughly contemporary

• It stands for Algorithm Languages.
• Developed in 1958.
• There were three major specialisations of ALGOL: ALGOL 58, ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
• It was designed especially for Scientific implementations.
• Inspiration for various other High-Level Computer Languages was taken from ALGOL.

PYTHON

Python is a high-level, interpreted, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically-typed and garbage-collected

• It is an interpreted, high-level programming language.
• Released in 1991.
• It supports structured, object-oriented and functional programming.
• It used block coding.

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