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.
Very high-level programming languages are usually domain-specific languages, limited to a very specific application, purpose, or type of task, and 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.
An example of a very high-level programming language is the mIRC scripting language, which is designed to extend mIRC, a popular IRC client for Windows.
The term VHLL was used in the 1990s for what are today more often called high level languages (no "Very"), such as Perl, Python, and Visual Basic.[1][2]
See also
- Scripting language
- Low-level programming language
- High-level programming language
- Fourth-generation programming language
- Fifth-generation programming language
- Domain-specific language
References
- ^ Tom Christiansen et al (eds.): USENIX 1994 Very High Level Languages Symposium Proceedings. October 26-28, 1994, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- ^ "Are VHLLs Really High-Level?", by Greg Wilson, 12/01/1999
- 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 2004
- Libre Software Meeting: Proceedings of the VHLL track (2004).
- Libre Software Meeting (2003) VHLL Track announcement
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