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What 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.c
by rcfox 16y ago
What 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.