A very high-level programming language (VHLL) is a

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with a very high level of

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, used primarily as a professional programmer productivity tool. VHLLs are usually

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s, limited to a very specific application, purpose, or type of task, and they are often

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s (especially extension languages), controlling a specific environment. For this reason, very high-level programming languages are often referred to as goal-oriented programming languages. The term VHLL was used in the 1990s for what are today more often called

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s (not "very") used for scripting, such as

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, and

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Symposium on Very High Level Languages
SIG- PLAN Notices (ACM) 9, 4 (April 1974), 1-132. *Teichroew, D. A survey of languages for stating requirements for computer-based information systems. Proc. AFIPS 1972 FJCC, AFIPS Press, Montvale, N.J., pp. 1203-1224.
Libre Software Meeting 2004Libre Software Meeting: Proceedings of the VHLL track (2004).
*Libre Software Meeting (2003

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