Were the first languagesavailable for programmingcomputers.

Is specific to a particular CPUor microprocessor family.

COmmon Business Oriented Language, Aprocedural language development in the early1960's and used extensively for mainframebusiness applications.

FORmula TRANslator, One of the originalthirdgeneration languages: developed in1950's and is used today for scientificapplications.

A computer programming languagebased on a declarative programmingparadigm.

IT is used for artificialintelligence applications.

They eliminated many of the strictpunctuation and grammar rules thatcomplicated third generation languages.

Allows programmers to use abbreviatedcommand words, called op codes, ratherthan the 1's and 0's used in MachineLanguages.