Question

The language that the computer can understand and execute is called.

• A. Machine language
• B. Application software
• C. System program
• D. All of the above
• E. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is A Machine language

The language that the computer can understand and execute is called Machine language.

Machine language is the only language a computer is capable of understanding. ... Computer programs are written in one or more programming languages, like C++, Java, or Visual Basic. A computer cannot directly understand the programming languages used to create computer programs, so the program code must be compiled.

A low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture—commands or functions in the language map closely to processor instructions. Generally this refers to either machine code or assembly language.

Programmers commonly use more English-like languages (called high level languages) such as Basic, C, Java, etc., to write programs which are then translated into machine language (called a low level language) by an assembler, compiler, or interpreter.