Third Generation of Languages [High-Level Languages]
The 3rd Generation of Language saw a very large change with the advent of high-level languages where programming was made comparatively simpler. These are known as high-level languages or compiler languages, because they needed a special program known as a compiler that translates programs written into machine language. The real program written in high-level language is known as the source program and its translation into machine language is known as the object program. General high-level languages are COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC, many more.