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
Notes
- 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
References
Tom Christiansen et al (eds.): USENIX 1994 Very High Level Languages Symposium Proceedings. October 26–28, 1994, Santa Fe, New Mexico /wiki/USENIX ↩
Greg, Wilson (1999-12-01). "Are VHLLs Really High-Level?". oreilly.com. O'Reilly. Archived from the original on 2018-04-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20180424230256/http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/vhll_1299.html ↩