Language has been our primary means of communication. It contains words or keywords which are used in day-to-day communication.
Similarly, in a computer, there are many pieces of software and hardware that need to communicate with each other. Our application is reacting to the mouse, keyboard, or even to the mic, it can read or write data to and from storage and so on. but the computer understands only bits, 1s, and 0s, the combination of which creates meaning.
Unlike normal language, keywords in a programming language are limited and by combining these keywords, a programmer can create different types of programs. Thus a programming language is the set of instructions through which humans interact with computers.
It is a set of instructions that are being given to a computer to perform some task. Unlike us humans, these instructions have to be detailed in some logic that is a specific syntactical form.
Some of the most popular programming languages are C, C++, Python, Java. Each language has its own distinct features, though many times there are commonalities between programming languages.
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