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# [[Second-generation programming language|Second generation]]: [[Low-level programming language]]s such as [[Assembly language]].
# [[Third-generation programming language|Third generation]]: Structured [[high-level programming language]]s such as [[C (programming language)|C]], [[COBOL]] and [[FORTRAN]].
# [[Fourth-generation programming language|Fourth generation]]: "Non-procedural" [[high-level programming language]]s (such as object-oriented languages).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/SwareGenns.html|title = Roger Clarke's Software Generations}}</ref>
 
Throughout these multiple generations up to the 1970s, Japan built computers following U.S. and British leads. In the mid-1970s, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry stopped following western leads and started looking into the future of computing on a small scale. They asked the [[Japan Information Processing Development Center]] (JIPDEC) to indicate a number of future directions, and in 1979 offered a three-year contract to carry out more in-depth studies along with industry and academia. It was during this period that the term "fifth-generation computer" started to be used.