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Re:Fourth-generation programming language by speed_spread on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:51AM (#31203596)
The problem was that there never was an accompanying wave of fourth generation programmers. 4GL were targeted at analysts and non technical personnel.

Turns out, making people care about how the machine does it is the real challenge. A higher level lang isn't going to change that.

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Re:Fourth-generation programming language by patrck on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:23AM (#31203771)
Lots of people live out full productive lives in SQL, R, etc.

I like the article's idea that DSLs are 4GLs. ie. crafting the nouns and verbs needed to work a problem.

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Re:Fourth-generation programming language by jeffbee on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:53PM (#31207619)
A huge number of in-house corporate developers never needed anything beyond powerbuilder to make the apps their companies needed. Certainly they didn’t give a damn about the hardware. Those apps spend 100% off their time waiting for the user to do something or waiting for the database.
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