OpenEuphoria

Re: 3rd or 4th generation lang (was Associative vs Analytical)

• Posted by Irv <mountains at MINDSPRING.COM> Aug 04, 1998
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At 11:19 PM 8/3/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Euphoria says its a 3rd-gen language (could someone go over the generations
>with me)?  Now, its still a bottom-up language.  In other words, I still
>have to tell it what to do.  My guess is that "4th gen" languages" are
>those that will let you tell it a problem and it figure out an algorithm to
>solve it.
>
...
>Well, I think we want a language that's
>problem-oriented.  I think, though, that I'm getting into AI.

Alan, my personal opinion (based on a few bad experiences) is that "4GL" usually
means the distributors of the language couldn't come up with a more catchy
sales pitch. "Tastes great-- less filling" would be better, for example.

I also tried Prograph, which, in my opinion rates 100 in concept, and around
30 in implementation, with a score of -30 in user friendliness.

Now, I am no great programmer, but a simple program that I have written in
half a dozen different languages proved impossible to write - ( create ?) -
in Prograph. I quickly gave up trying, and hit the Delete key.

As for a language that meets your definition - give it a problem and it
figures out how to solve it - I think that is more like 8th generation.


Irv