Fourth-Generation Programming Languages :
Pooja Pedgaonkar
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Pooja Pedgaonkar
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- From the 1970s through the 1990s
- Also known as very high-level language or non-procedural language.
- It is a programming language to create and control databases.
- Compact, efficient, non-procedural.
- It is application specific.
- Close to natural language (English sentences are used) means familiar to human language.
- Closer to the domain, Further from the machine.
- Focus on What is need to be done, not how it is to be done.
- Fourth-generation languages need approximately one-tenth the number of statements that high-level languages need to achieve the same results.
- Non-computer professionals can develop software.
- Centered around mathematics, large database management, and report generation.
- It is specially designed for handling large databases
- Examples: SQL, PHP
Examples :
- Query languages (SQL)
- Report Programmer Generators (RPG by IBM): Created for punched card machines.
- Applications generators
- MATLAB
- Some minicomputer applications ex. PowerBuilder, FOCUS, Infotrieve-4GL, Progress 4GL, etc.
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