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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 08:54:32 -0400
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security"
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Subject: CM> Origins: fourth generation programming languages?
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>A few nights ago, I was listening to a friend of mine describe "fourth generation computer languages." He said HTML, Macromedia Director, and Foxpro were examples of "fourth generation" languages. I am not sure what this means. What is the definition of a "fourth generation" programming language?
Best definition I ever saw of a 4GL was "Not Cobol". The term "fourth generation" came about the same time that "object oriented" and "relational" became buzzwords and related to distributed hierarchial databases. There were the ten "Codd Rules" (may have misspeeeled) that defined this but have not seen any of that for about as many years. Am sure someone here knows what they were 8*).
Warmly,
Padgett
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "A. Padgett Peterson P.E. Information Security"
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Subject: CM> Origins: fourth generation programming languages?
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>A few nights ago, I was listening to a friend of mine describe "fourth generation computer languages." He said HTML, Macromedia Director, and Foxpro were examples of "fourth generation" languages. I am not sure what this means. What is the definition of a "fourth generation" programming language?
Best definition I ever saw of a 4GL was "Not Cobol". The term "fourth generation" came about the same time that "object oriented" and "relational" became buzzwords and related to distributed hierarchial databases. There were the ten "Codd Rules" (may have misspeeeled) that defined this but have not seen any of that for about as many years. Am sure someone here knows what they were 8*).
Warmly,
Padgett
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