Also known as a "3GL," it refers to a high-level programming language such as FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal and C. It is a step above assembly language and a step below a fourth-generation ...

A non-procedural programming ... Second- and Third-Generation Languages First-generation languages are binary machine languages. Second-generation languages are machine-dependent assembly ...

For two decades now, we’ve had only one programming language available to use natively in a web browser: JavaScript. The slow death of third-party binary ... s more like an assembly language ...