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What I was referring to is the shift from 2nd Generation Programming Languages to 3rd. The post is basically predicting the same fall off will occur when we tra
by chegra 16y ago
What I was referring to is the shift from 2nd Generation Programming Languages to 3rd. The post is basically predicting the same fall off will occur when we transition to a 5th Generation. Hence, a programmer is more interested in creating something, since 5th Generation Languages is basically talking(not coding) and creativity process is what is common amongst the languages . http://github.com/languages http://github.com/languages - This as a reference, assembly is not in the top ten.
Also, doesn't like code is not hating coding. It also encompass being disinterested. Thus if a better option present itself there would be no hesitation to adopted it.
My perspective is to view programming as a tool for being creative and when it is abstracted out like this, the question arises what other tools can we use to be creative?
Yes there will be a few people who still use 3rd generation language still but it would be like some people still use assembly today.
- rcfox 16y agoWhat is this about 2nd-, 3rd- and 5th-generation languages? I'm pretty sure most of us are using something like 20th-generation languages. http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf
- chegra 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-generation_programming_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-generation_programming_la... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation_programming_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-generation_programming_l... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_programming_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_programming_la... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_l... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_la...
- rcfox 16y agoI see. One of the examples on Wikipedia of a 5th-generation language is Prolog. If you've ever looked at Prolog, it isn't just like talking. While it makes some problems easier, it makes others more complex. It's not the creative silver bullet you've made it out to be. Among the list of 4th-generation languages is SPSS. Guh. SPSS works well enough for one-off analysis, but any sort of automation is extremely frustrating. Based on these Wikipedia articles, (I'm not interested enough for further research) it does not appear to me that the numeric ordering has any correlation to programmers' productivity or the languages' usefulness in general creativity.