application program

  1. A computer program developed and implemented for dealing with some business activity. (A computer program is a group of instructions that cause a computer to do a sequence of operations.) An application program is synthesized from some combination of application development tools.

See also application development tool, database, developer, user.

  1. In 4GL, an application program is the 4GL program, with one MAIN program block, its supporting 4GL source modules, its form specification files, and its help message file.

See also form specification file, help file, MAIN program block, source module.