On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > In recent reading I've been looking at the different generations of > programming languages. 1GL, 2GL, etc. Looking at Wikipedia it doesn't > have Perl listed as either 3GL or 4GL... Which is it? To me it seems > like there are arguments for why it could go into either category, > although on the whole I'd say it's 3GL. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-generation_programming_language > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language >
Perl itself is general-purpose, so I don't think you could call it a 4GL. However it's probably quite well-suited to *writing* 4GLs on top of. Alex _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
