Fifth Generation Computer Systems: Difference between revisions

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There was also a parallel set of generations for software:

# [[First-generation programming language|First generation]]: [[Machine language]].

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# [[Second-generation programming language|Second generation]]: [[Low-level programming language]]s such as [[Assembly language]].

# [[Third-generation programming language|Thirdourth generation]]: Structured"Non-procedural" [[high-level programming language]]s (such as [[Cobject-oriented (programminglanguages).<ref>{{Cite language)web|C]],url=http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/SwareGenns.html|title [[COBOL]]= andRoger [[FORTRAN]].Clarke's Software Generations}}</ref>

# [[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.