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  2. From: ed@titipu.resun.com (Edward Reid)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Generations of Programming Languages
  5. Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:23:30 EST(-0500)
  6. Organization: Accuracy, Ltd.
  7. Message-ID: <01010064.idsgid@titipu.resun.com>
  8. Reply-To: ed@titipu.resun.com (Edward Reid)
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  12. hmiller@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Harry Miller) writes:
  13. > The evelolution of programming languages is broken down into generations.
  14. > What is the latest generation and what does it correspond to?  Well, while
  15. > I'm at it what programming languages do the generations refer to?
  16.  
  17. First generation: machine language.
  18. Second generation: assemblers.
  19. Third generation: higher level languages.
  20. Fourth and higher: marketing hype.
  21.  
  22. Edward Reid  (8*}>
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