From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,63ef8c05ac090a41 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,63ef8c05ac090a41 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,63ef8c05ac090a41 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: 4th generation languages Date: 1996/10/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 190151395 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > 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 -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com