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are designed to build specific programs, fifth-generation languages are designed to make the computer solve a given problem without the programmer. This way, the user only needs to worry about what problems need to be solved and what conditions need to be met, without worrying about how to implement
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The terms "first-generation" and "second-generation" programming language were not used prior to the coining of the term "third-generation"; none of these three terms are mentioned in early compendiums of programming languages. The introduction of a third generation of computer technology coincided
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3GLs are much more machine-independent (portable) and more programmer-friendly. This includes features like improved support for aggregate data types and expressing concepts in a way that favors the programmer, not the computer. A third-generation language improves over a second-generation language
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by having the computer take care of non-essential details. 3GLs are more abstract than previous generations of languages, and thus can be considered higher-level languages than their first- and second-generation counterparts. First introduced in the late 1950s,
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and domain-specific languages) which claimed to operate at an even higher level, and in a domain even closer to the user (e.g. at a natural-language level) than the original, imperative high-level languages such as
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with the creation of a new generation of programming languages. The marketing for this generational shift in machines correlated with several important changes in what were called
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based on problem-solving using constraints given to the program, rather than using an
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a routine or algorithm to solve them. Fifth-generation languages are used mainly in
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Initially, all programming languages at a higher level than assembly were termed "
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Second-generation programming language (2GL) is a generational way to categorize
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Fourth-generation languages tend to be specialized toward very specific
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For programming languages grouped by ancestor language, see
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Most popular general-purpose languages today, such as
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A fifth-generation programming language (5GL) is any
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Programming languages
Second-generation programming language
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Java
Python
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Perl
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