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From: fwb@demon.siemens.com (Frederic W. Brehm)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Re.: SQL = 4GL
Keywords: 4GL
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Date: 25 Aug 88 13:11:44 GMT
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larry@postgres.uucp (Larry Rowe) writes:
>SQL is *definitely* not a 4GL.

mohan@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Mohan Palat) responds:
>	If 1GL = machine languages, 2GL = assembly languages, 3GL = high level
>	programming languages, and SQL cannot be classified as a 4GL,
>	then where exactly do data definition and manipulation languages
>	like SQL fit in, in this hierarchy?

I quip:
Perhaps this isn't a one dimensional problem.

Fred
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