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A '''very high-level programming language''' (VHLL) is a [[programming language]] with a very high level of [[abstraction (computer science)|abstraction]], used primarily as a professional programmer productivity tool.

Very high-level programming languages 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 extensionespension 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|high-level languages]] (not "very") used for scripting, such as [[Perl]], [[Python (programming language)|Python]], [[Ruby (programming language)|Ruby]], and [[Visual Basic]].<ref>