Applications programming
Saul Rosen · Encyclopedia of Computer Science · 2003
Applications programs are programs written to solve specific problems, to produce specific reports, or to update specific files. The term is used in contradistinction to systems programming, which deals with the development of the software tools that the applications programmer uses. The programming languages that are used most often in applications programming are Fortran, Ada, and C (q.v.) for scientific applications and Cobol for data processing applications. Special Report Program Generator (RPG) languages are used on small data processing computers, and languages like Basic, Pascal, and APL were used extensively in early time-sharing systems.