Generations of programming languages

First Generation

A first-generation programming language is a group of programming

languages that are machine level languages used to program first-
generation computers.

The instructions were given through the front panel switches of these
computers, directly to the CPU.
The main advantage of programming in 1st generation language is that the
code can run very fast and very efficiently because the instructions are
executed directly by the CPU.
And the main disadvantage of programming in a low-level language is that
when an error occurs, it was very difficult to fix the error.

Second Generation
A second generation programming language is a group of programming
languages associated with assembly languages.
2nd generation is mostly used for performance-oriented applications such as
computer games, graphic manipulation applications and video editing
applications.

Third Generation

3rd generation are much more portable and programmer-friendly languages.

These languages are favoured by providing features like different data

types, variable names, the ability to divide code into different sections etc.

C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, C# are some examples of third-generation

programming languages.
Fourth Generation

A fourth-generation programming language is a group of programming

languages that reduces the overall time, effort and cost of software
development.

The main domains of these languages are database queries, data

manipulation, GUI development or Web development.

Perl, Python, Ruby, SQL are some examples of fourth-generation

languages.

Fifth Generation

 Fifth-generation languages are designed to make the computer solve a

given problem without the programmer.

These are constraint-based logic programming languages.

These languages are mainly used in artificial intelligence research. OPS5

and Mercury are examples of fifth-generation programming languages.