[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: New to Progress RDBMS

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> On Jan 25, 2018, at 9:32 AM, agent_008_nl wrote: > > I for myself find the original ideas the led to the development of 4 GL's unsound. > > > the 4GL was not an attempt at “natural language programming”. unsound by what measure? in spite of its flaws, i believe it has been successful and, though it is a minority language, a ton of business application have been built with it and those application creators have made a decent amount of money with it. could it be better? yes, of course, but i do not think the rationale for its design was unsound in 1981. (i agree with pretty much everything EWD ever wrote)

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