Nonprocedural languages
Burton M. Leavenworth, Jean Ε. Sammet, David Hemmendinger · Encyclopedia of Computer Science · 2003
This article describes some of the basic characteristics of the class of programming languages commonly referred to as nonprocedural or very high level (see Leavenworth and Sammet, 1974). Some of the descriptive terms that have often been applied to the word language to convey essentially the same concept are the following: