Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: SQL = 4GL ???
Message-ID: <314@telly.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 20:33:16 GMT
References: <24484@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <641@stech.UUCP>
Organization: System telly, Brampton, Ontario
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In article <641@stech.UUCP>, sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
> 
> I don't consider languages such as dBase's as 4GLs. They are more like
> 3GLs (e.g., Pascal) with DBMS extensions.

I agree, and would extend that definiton to include most self-proclaimed
'4GL' packages such as the one by Informix.

Let's face it. For the foreseeable future, the term 'fourth generation
language' has been appropriated by marketing types, and should be treated
as suspect in any non-academic context.
-- 
Evan Leibovitch, SA of System Telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
            evan@telly.UUCP / {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!telly!evan
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.