English: The Next Level In High Level Languages

English: The Next Level In High Level Languages
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One of the long term trends in software development is getting away from ones and zeros. Machine code isn't something people write code in anymore because assembly languages became an easier way to communicate instructions to a computer. Although there are still people that have to drill down and be closer to hardware and be proficient in understanding binary, it largely isn't important to the vast majority of engineers writing software in their day-to-day lives. It lives as an abstracted away problem for them that they don't have to think about layers down. Typically they find themselves working within higher level languages like javascript, python, java, c++, etc.