General-purpose programming language or General purpose Softwares refers to a type software that is suitable for most ordinary computer applications. This would include any software that supports all of the following constructs:

This is the minimum necessary for a language to be useful for general purpose applications. Most general-purpose softwares include many more features than the above, such as means to issue various requests to each operating system that the language runs under, sorting, searching and use of arrays.

Some general-purpose softwares are as follows: *Ada programming language *Assembly language *BASIC programming language *C programming language / C plus plus *Cobol *F programming language *Fortran *Java programming language *Lua programming language *Nemerle *Pascal programming language *PL/I *RPG (programming language) *SMALL programming language *Perl *Python programming language

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