e/Nonprocedural language

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has gloss	eng: NPL (for NonProcedural Language) was a relational database language developed by T.D. Truitt et al. in 1980 for Apple II and MS-DOS. Modern languages such as Visual Basic or Java are called non-procedural or event-driven, languages because instead of writing a series of sequential instructions, a programmer defines the actions that the program must perform when certain events occur.
lexicalization	eng: Nonprocedural language
instance of	(noun) a source language consisting of procedural operators that invoke functions to be executed query language, command language, search language