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{{Short description|Highly abstract programming language}}

A '''very high-level programming language''' ('''VHLL''') is a [[programming language]] with a very high level of [[abstractionAbstraction (softwarecomputer engineeringscience)|abstraction]], used primarily as a professional programmer productivity tool.{{Citation needed | date=April 2016|reason=Seems strange, as all programming languages are highly goal-oriented.}} An example would be [[Jq (programming language)|jq]].

VHLLs are usually [[___domain-specific language]]s, limited to a very specific application, purpose, or type of task, and they are often [[scripting language]]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.{{Citation needed | date=April 2016|reason=Seems strange, as all programming languages are highly goal-oriented.}}

The term VHLL was used in the 1990s for what are today more often called [[high-level programming language]]s (not "very") used for scripting, such as [[Perl]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[PHP]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], and [[Visual Basic]].<ref>

Tom Christiansen et al (eds.): [[USENIX]] 1994 ''[http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/vhll/index.html Very High Level Languages Symposium Proceedings].'' October 26-2826–28, 1994, Santa Fe, New Mexico</ref><ref>

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*[[Automatic programming]]

*[[Low-level programming language]]

*[[ThirdFeature-generationoriented programming language]]

*[[Fourth-generation programming language]]

*[[Fifth-generation programming language]]

*[[Feature Oriented Programming]]

==Notes==

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*[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=359886&coll=portal&dl=ACMProceedings, 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. &nbsp;1203-1224.

*[http://www.cliki.net/Libre%20Software%20Meeting%202004 Libre Software Meeting 2004]

*[http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/papers/lightning/lightning.ps Libre Software Meeting: Proceedings of the VHLL track (2004).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060112011752/http://www-jcsu.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~csr21/papers/lightning/lightning.ps |date=2006-01-12 }}

*Libre Software Meeting (2003) [http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg02777.html VHLL Track announcement]

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{{Types of programming languages}}

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