A programming language that is very similar to machine language, but uses symbols instead of binary numbers.
Old joke: "There are three reasons for using Assembly language: speed, speed, and more speed."

BASIC (Beginner's All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was meant to be a very simple language to learn and also one that would be easy to translate. Bill Gates and Paul Allen had something different in mind...

C was developed in early 1970's by Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan at Bell Labs. C++ developed in early 1980's by Bjarne Stroustrup. One of the most popular programming language.

PASCAL is a programming language developed by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s. The language is named after Blaise Pascal, a 17th-century French mathematician who constructed one of the first mechanical adding machines.

.NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems, and devices through software. Integrated across the Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services.

In 1987 Larry Wall introduced Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language), which takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.

Relatively new (born in 1995) object-oriented programming language from Sun Microsystems. Extremely powerful and portable while not complicated. Note: JavaScript is not Java!