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There are no fixed rules as to which programming languages are processed in which way, and indeed most languages can be handled in any of these three ways. Many languages have been implemented in two or more of these ways. Traditionally compilers have been used for languages where performance is important (e.g. Fortran, '''C'''), interpreters have been used for languages where convenience of use is important (e.g. most scripting and command languages), and translation to intermediate code has been used when machine-independence is considered to be important (e.g. Java).

There are no fixed rules as to which programming languages are processed in which way, and indeed most languages can be handled in any of these three ways. Many languages have been implemented in two or more of these ways. Traditionally compilers have been used for languages where performance is important (e.g. Fortran, '''C'''), interpreters have been used for languages where convenience of use is important (e.g. most scripting and command languages), and translation to intermediate code has been used when machine-independence is considered to be important (e.g. Java).

==Language List==

==Assorted Languages==

 

Information about some 2,500 programming languages can be found in 'The Language List'.<ref>{{cite web

| url = http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/langlist.htm

| accessdate = 2012-03-16}}</ref>

According to LangPop <ref>{{cite web

According to LangPop <ref>{{cite web

:Simula 67 was the first object-oriented language.

:Simula 67 was the first object-oriented language.

:[[C]] showed that operating systems and compilers could be written in a high-level language.

:[[C]] showed that operating systems and compilers could be written in a high-level language.

==References==

==References==

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