A very high-level programming language (VHLL) is a
programming language
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with a very high level of
abstraction
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"An abstraction" ...
, used primarily as a professional programmer productivity tool.
VHLLs are usually
domain-specific languages, limited to a very specific application, purpose, or type of task, and they are often
scripting language
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s (especially extension languages), controlling a specific environment. For this reason, very high-level programming languages are often referred to as goal-oriented programming languages.
The term VHLL was used in the 1990s for what are today more often called
high-level programming language
A high-level programming language is a programming language with strong Abstraction (computer science), abstraction from the details of the computer. In contrast to low-level programming languages, it may use natural language ''elements'', be ea ...
s (not "very") used for scripting, such as
Perl
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Perl was developed ...
,
Python,
PHP,
Ruby
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, and
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* Visual Basic (classic), the original Visual Basic suppo ...
.
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See also
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Automatic programming
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Low-level programming language
A low-level programming language is a programming language that provides little or no Abstraction (computer science), abstraction from a computer's instruction set architecture, memory or underlying physical hardware; commands or functions in the ...
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Feature-oriented programming
In computer programming, feature-oriented programming (FOP) or feature-oriented software development (FOSD) is a programming paradigm for program generation in software product lines (SPLs) and for incremental development of programs.
History
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Notes
References
Symposium on Very High Level Languages SIG- PLAN Notices (ACM) 9, 4 (April 1974), 1-132.
*Teichroew, D. A survey of languages for stating requirements for computer-based information systems. Proc. AFIPS 1972 FJCC, AFIPS Press, Montvale, N.J., pp. 1203-1224.
Libre Software Meeting 2004Libre Software Meeting: Proceedings of the VHLL track (2004).
*Libre Software Meeting (2003
Programming language classification
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