From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: 4th generation languages
Date: 1996/10/21
Date: 1996-10-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.845938691@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32668924.175A@sn.no
Aron said
" 4th generation: usually proprietary languages that include FOCUS, the
language used by SAS Institute's products, etc. and
more recent languages like xBase (I'd classify APL as
4th generation -- these languages tended to have
reserved words that performed *huge* operations, like
statistical analyses, in one statement)
"
no, no, no! APL is definitely NOT a 4th generation language. Of the essence
in Jim Martin's notion of 4GL's is the idea of declarative languages
as opposed to imperative languages. APL is definitely an imperative language,
sure it is a very high level language (at least in some respects), but a
4GL is not simply a very high level language!
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 ` Jon S Anthony
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 [this message]
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