Natural languages vs. programming languages
Understanding Language: Machine Language vs. Natural Language
A language is a means (and a tool) for expressing and recording thoughts.
No, some languages, like body language, do not require speaking or writing.
Your mother tongue, which you use to manifest your will and to ponder reality.
It is called machine language.
A computer can be compared to a well-trained dog, as it responds only to a predetermined set of known commands.
An instruction list (IL) is a complete set of known commands that a computer can recognize.
Machine languages are developed by humans.
No, computers are not currently capable of creating new languages.
Human languages developed naturally and are still evolving, while machine languages are created by humans and do not evolve naturally.
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
- a) Only for speaking
- b) Only for writing
- c) For expressing and recording thoughts
- d) For programming only
Answer: c) For expressing and recording thoughts
- a) Yes
- b) No
- c) Only body language
- d) Only sign language
Answer: b) No
- a) Foreign language
- b) Sign language
- c) Body language
- d) Mother tongue
Answer: d) Mother tongue
- a) Programming language
- b) Machine language
- c) System language
- d) Computer code
Answer: b) Machine language
- a) A well-trained dog
- b) A cat
- c) A human
- d) A book
Answer: a) A well-trained dog
- a) A set of written instructions for humans
- b) A set of spoken commands
- c) A complete set of known commands a computer can recognize
- d) A programming language
Answer: c) A complete set of known commands a computer can recognize
- a) Computers themselves
- b) Animals
- c) Nature
- d) Humans
Answer: d) Humans
- a) Yes
- b) No
- c) Only a few
- d) It depends on the computer
Answer: b) No
- a) Human languages are created by computers
- b) Machine languages evolve naturally
- c) Human languages developed naturally and are still evolving
- d) Both are the same
Answer: c) Human languages developed naturally and are still evolving