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Foil 38 What is a 3GL or 4GL?

From untitled presentation ARL Database Tutorial -- February 98. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny Chao-Wei Ou
Historians of programming languages and database people tend to classify programming languages by generations:
1GL --- machine language (in 0/1 binary)
2GL --- assembly language (in symbolic machine language)
3GL --- high-level programming language (structural, modular and usually procedural)
4GL --- non-procedural (declarative). Most AI languages are 4GL.

© on Mon Oct 13 1997