THIRD GENERATION LANGUAGE

  

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THIRD GENERATION LANGUAGE

Specialty Definition: THIRD GENERATION LANGUAGE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Third generation language (3GL, "high level language") A language designed to be easier for a human to understand, including things like named variables. A fragment might be let c = c + 2 * d Fortran, ALGOL and COBOL are early examples of this sort of language. Most "modern" languages (BASIC, C, C++) are third generation. Most 3GLs support structured programming. See also second generation language, fourth generation language. (1996-05-30). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Third generation language

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A third generation language (3GL) is a programming language designed to be easier for a human to understand, including things like named variables. A fragment might be:
let c = c + 2 * d

Fortran, ALGOL and COBOL are early examples of this sort of language. Most "modern" languages (BASIC, C, C++) are third generation. Most 3GLs support structured programming. This article, or earlier versions of it, include or included material from FOLDOC, used by Wikipedia with permission.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Third generation language."

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Crosswords: THIRD GENERATION LANGUAGE

Specialty definitions using "THIRD GENERATION LANGUAGE": 3GL. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: THIRD GENERATION LANGUAGE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 48 49 52 44      47 45 4E 45 52 41 54 49 4F 4E      4C 41 4E 47 55 41 47 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001000 01001001 01010010 01000100 00100000 01000111 01000101 01001110 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01000111 01010101 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#73 &#82 &#68 &#32 &#71 &#69 &#78 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#71 &#85 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0049 0052 0044      0047 0045 004E 0045 0052 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E      004C 0041 004E 0047 0055 0041 0047 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544243523824139483952355443494824635484155354139

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