4th-generation programming language

More user friendly and non-procedural in nature i.e., users need to think "what" instead of "how"

EntityQ238137

Also known as 4GL · 4th generation language · fourth-generation programming language

Subclass of: programming language

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Programming languages have been classified into several programming language generations. This series of buzzwords was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Historically, this classification was used to indicate increasing power of programming styles. Later writers have somewhat redefined the meanings as distinctions previously seen as important became less significant to current practice.

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Follows: 3rd-generation programming language
Followed by: 5th-generation programming language

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