4gl

By dreamreal · 24 March 2026 · 465 lookups

Text: 4gl is Fourth-Generation Languages — database-oriented languages (SQL, FOCUS, Informix-4GL) meant to let non-programmers build reports. SQL survived. The rest, less so. We try to miss them and fail.
URLs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language
Tags: language history database methodology