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Game consoles, fighter jets... Anyway, it's interesting that there is no 5'th generation language, at least on wikipedia.

• rwmj 5y ago
  There very much was something that claimed to be the "5th generation" project, out of Japan. At the time it was taken very seriously. Most people now regard it as having been a failure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst...
  • wrp 5y ago
    The common joke is that it was a very successful project in that it secured the academic careers of many people.
  • pmt213455 5y ago
    Yeah cheers. I missed that.
• vegai_ 5y ago
  It's probably because everyone realized that a marketing person claiming that something is "fourth generation" doesn't actually mean anything in a technical sense. But also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...