4GL's available???

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Thu Jan 14 23:08:08 1999

On or about 03:59 PM 1/14/99 -0600, Uncle Roger was caught in a dark alley
speaking these words:

>For-Next is interpreted when executed. It is at that point that the
>relevant machine language instructions are generated and executed. Machine
>language is low-level, C is slightly higher, BASIC is definitely
>high-level

And Perl is some of most of these - at times faster than C, yet sometimes
simpler than Basic, almost as powerful as APL, and runs on more machines
than Java! (of course, APL runs on more machines than Java...)

>things like Powerhouse and other 4GL's are even higher levels
>of extraction.

Speaking of 4GL's, there was a 4GL available for the CoCo under OS-9 called
Sculptor from FHL (Frank Hogg Laboratories), IIRC. Anyone here have a copy
of it for sale? I've always wanted to play with it.

See ya,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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SysAdmin - Iceberg Computers
===== Merch's Wild Wisdom of the Moment: =====
for (1..15) { print "Merry Christmas\n"; }
(from perl.1 man page, version 4.)
Received on Thu Jan 14 1999 - 23:08:08 GMT