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OpenEdge ABL Programming Language
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Kaitlyn M Marin

CSIT 313- Fund of Programming Language
Professor Stefan Robila
December 1,
OpenEdge ABL Programming Language
OpenEdge ABL, Advanced Business Language, is a high-level programming language. OpenEdge ABL is developed and maintained by Progress Software Corporation. OpenEdge ABL previously was known by other names, such as Progress or Progress 4GL. (History 1) This language was first released in the 1980s. This first commercial release for UNIX and DOS was in 1984, since then there has been several versions released. (History 1) In the 1990s Progress released their first graphical interface, PROGRESS. (History 1) Throughout each era such as GUI, web and the cloud, Progress has kept up to date with technology. In 2009 Progress released their first cloud application that they called OpenEdge. (History 1)
OpenEdge provides a programming language for building business application. (Sadd
25). Progress provides much documentation that can easily be found on their site, www.progress.com. It is suggested to use the documentation to refer to the information on the language; such as keywords and statements. (Sadd 25) There are a lot of specifics about the keywords and statements that users can look into by referring to the documentation. This language is very powerful, and it is meant for serious developers that need to solve business problems. ( Sadd 25) In John Sadd’s book, OpenEdge Development: ABL

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