Very high-level programming language

A very high-level programming language (VHLL) is a programming language with a very high level of 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 languages (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 languages (not "very") used for scripting, such as Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, and Visual Basic.

See also

• Automatic programming
• Low-level programming language
• Feature-oriented programming

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References

1. High-level programming language
2. Low-level programming language
3. Third-generation programming language
4. SETL
5. Programming language theory
6. Natural-language programming
7. Python (programming language)
8. Wolfram Language
9. Icon (programming language)
10. Programming language generations
11. Scripting language
12. Fifth-generation programming language
13. C (programming language)
14. Ada (programming language)
15. Jq (programming language)
16. High Level Assembly
17. Red (programming language)
18. D (programming language)
19. Pascal (programming language)
20. Assembly language