3rd-generation programming language

High-level computer programming language

EntityQ1294375

Also known as third-generation programming language · 3GL

Subclass of: programming language

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Programming languages have been classified into several programming language generations. This series of buzzwords was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Historically, this classification was used to indicate increasing power of programming styles. Later writers have somewhat redefined the meanings as distinctions previously seen as important became less significant to current practice.

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Followed by: 4th-generation programming language
Follows: 2nd-generation programming language

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