By itself, a computer will do nothing at all. This is because it needs to be instructed what to do. Programs are simply lists of instructions that tell a computer what it must do. In the same way that you need to be told to do something in a language you understand to be able to do it, a computer must be told to do something in binary form (1 and 0) However, programming like this is very platform specific and difficult, and so 'higher level' programming langauges were developed, which makes programming much much easier and caters to the wide array of computer setups in the world. According to Langpop, Java is the most popular programming language, closely followed by C. While this is only a very rough approximation of something practically impossible to measure, it is still interesting, especially if you are wondering which programming language you should learn.

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