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  1. Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!cs.uow.edu.au!cc.uow.edu.au!u9048979
  3. From: u9048979@cc.uow.edu.au (glen eastment)
  4. Subject: Re: What constitutes a 4GL?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep8.055410.11594@cc.uow.edu.au>
  6. Organization: University Of Wollongong
  7. References: <1992Aug31.045102.25682@cc.uow.edu.au> <blzeo58@Unify.Com> <1992Sep2.025045.9663@cc.uow.edu.au> <1992Sep2.120558.29426@access.digex.com>
  8. Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 05:54:10 GMT
  9. Lines: 31
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  11. dzik@access.digex.com (Joseph Dzikiewicz) writes:
  12.  
  13. >In article <1992Sep2.025045.9663@cc.uow.edu.au
  14. >>
  15. >>I read somewhere, that the productivity of programmers has only increased by
  16. >>a few per cent since the beginning of computing - if this is true (and I am
  17. >>*not* necessarily saying that it is), then it just about throws out the above
  18. >>theory.
  19. >>
  20.  
  21. >The explanation that I have heard is that programmers will tend to produce
  22. >the same number of lines of code per day.  With higher order languages,
  23. >a line of code does more.  Therefore, programmers in a higher order language
  24. >are more productive not in terms of lines of code per day, but in terms
  25. >of functionality produced.
  26.  
  27. That would probably explain it.
  28.  
  29. >This doesn't explain differences between machine language and
  30. >assembler productivity, but would explain 2GL vs 3GL vs 4GL 
  31. >productivity.
  32.  
  33. Yes.
  34.  
  35. >Joe Dzikiewicz
  36.  
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  38.  
  39. <GE> a.k.a. u9048979@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au
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