From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: 4th generation languages
Date: 1996/10/17
Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.96Oct17172321@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: MPG.ccf5d8ff19436e4989682@news.crosslink.net
> A fourth generation language is one that is NOT procedural based. C++,
Well, that's probably one of a zillion definitions.
> example of a 4th generation language would be SQL, SmallTalk,etc..
Huh? SmallTalk is procedural and you can even make a reasonably good case
that SQL (such as it is...) is also.
> Basically, any programming language that looks like plain English.
???????? This conflicts with your earlier claim. Things like Mercury
(purely declarative logic programming language) don't look anything
like "plain English".
/Jon
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1996-10-16 0:00 4th generation languages Roger Martinez
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Steven Nguyen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Ed McGuffey
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Aron Felix Gurski
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Walter William Karas
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Jon A. Lambert
1996-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
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