Procedural programming language that offers a higher level of abstraction than an assembly language. Examples: COBOL, PL/1, C, FORTRAN, Pascal, and Ada. The term is used interchangeably with "3GL."
A procedural programming language that offers a higher level of abstraction than assembly language. Examples of HLLs include COBOL, FORTRAN and C. The term is interchangeable with "third-generation language" (see 3GL).