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“Natural language is, of course, very much richer than third-generation languages like solidity. And the act of leaving things out is actually something that the compiler does.

A computer that used integrated circuits, disk storage and online terminals. The third generation started roughly in 1964 with the IBM System/360. See computer generations and System/360 .