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Record 1 - external organization data 2006-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
07.01.12 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

high-level language that allows a user, not necessarily a programmer, to write statements in near-natural language, that has a ratio of machine instructions to simple statements much higher than that of a third-generation language, and that elevates the level of abstraction at which the user may work beyond that of previous generations of programming languages

OBS

Examples: 1. In a fourth-generation language, sorting a customer list could be expressed as: "Sort customer_list on customer_name in ascending order". The user need not know any sorting algorithm. 2. dBASE is a fourth-generation language.

OBS

fourth-generation language; 4GL: term, abbreviation and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-7:2000].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
07.01.12 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

langage évolué qui permet à un utilisateur, non nécessairement programmeur, d'écrire des instructions dans un langage presque naturel; ce langage peut générer, pour chacune de ses instructions simples, des instructions machine beaucoup plus nombreuses que dans le cas des langages de troisième génération, et il élève le niveau d'abstraction auquel l'utilisateur peut travailler, bien au-delà des générations précédentes de langages de programmation

OBS

Exemples : 1. Dans un langage de quatrième génération, l'ordre de tri d'une liste de clients pourrait être exprimé comme suit : «trier la liste_de_clients en fonction du nom_de_client en ordre ascendant». L'utilisateur n'a pas besoin de connaître d'algorithme de tri. 2. dBASE est un langage de quatrième génération.

OBS

langage de quatrième génération : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-7:2000].

Spanish

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