On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:49 PM, Frank Harrell wrote: > What do low level proc print and proc report have on Sweave or > http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/StatReport/summary.pdf? > If proc print and proc report are 4G, let's move back a generation.
Er, no... AFAIK, 4GL just means that the end user writes (short) programs to control a (complex) application. (3GL is systems programming languages: fortran, C, Pascal, Algol, 2GL is assembler, 1GL is binary code). So a SAS programming is quite typical 4GL, as is S and R. However, SAS may be more contemporary with the buzzword, which roughly corresponds to the perceived state of the art in computer science anno 1945, 1955, 1965, and 1975. If you try continuing into 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, you'll realize that languages fell off the avant-garde, and instead we got (say) word processors, internet, handheld devices, ... -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
