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Re:C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018) by marcus0x62 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:25AM (#29714052)
My memory of the whole "nGL" language thing was that it was more a marketing term than anything you would find in an academic paper. It was particularly common in the IBM world, for example in books[1] and advertisements[2]

[1] https://www.oldcomputerbooks.com/pages/books/R504/james-mart...

[2] I can't find a good example, but I remember seeing ads for "4GL" tools in Dr Dobbs regularly in the mid-90s.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018) by int_19h on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @03:13AM (#29722932)
On PC, I remember platforms such as dBase were often referred to as 4GL. In retrospect, it feels like was a short way to say "very high-level domain-specific language for databases".
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