Compiling higher-level languages

As you may have noticed, programming in assembly can be time-consuming and error-prone, so to make programming easier higher-level languages have been developed. These languages abstract away the details of particular processors and allow for the expression of common operations in a more concise and comprehensible manner. Typical early examples of higher-level programming languages are Fortran, Cobol, Algol 60 and Lisp. These days C/C++, Java and Python are the most popular languages. There are more than 1000 programming languages in existence and this number is quickly growing.