jm@tekadg.UUCP (Jeff Mizener) (10/01/84)
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I Gotta Question: My father-in-law needs some info on what he has
been told are "4th Generation Languages". I assume they are things
like mainframe-database-manipulation-report-generation languages.
So far he's heard of 3:
MAPPER -- Sperry
LINK -- Burroughs
NATURAL -- IBM
Who can give me some insight into these guys? What do they do, and how well?
Are there others around that do similar things? Which would you recommend?
Which would you stay away from?
Pointers to other sources of information would be helpful also.
My father-in-law works for a large Oregon company that will remain unnamed
(not Tek), but whose stock is selling for about $9/share now. They are
trying to "computerize" some of their information flow, and these languages
have been suggested as ways of helping that along. I assume they are
languages in the same sense that VisiCalc (tm) is a language (see last
months Scientific American article by Alan Kay of Apple).
Your Consideration Is Appreciated.
Jeff Mizener / Tektronix Portables ADG / Beaverton, OR
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