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- From: andrew@airs.com (Andrew Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
- Subject: What constitutes a 4GL?
- Message-ID: <5188@airs.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 03:25:47 GMT
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- At the risk of asking a seemingly trivial question compared to most of
- the other discussion that goes on around here, I'd like an
- authoritative description of what a fourth-generation language really
- is. In the scope of relational databases, is it simply a programming
- language with a database-oriented syntax? Or are there more specific
- attributes that a system must have in order to really be a 4GL?
- And who says that this is what a 4GL must be?
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- Andrew Evans (andrew@airs.com) - Infinity Development Systems - Waltham, MA
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