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fourth generation language - (4GL, or "report generator language") An "application specific" language, one with built-in knowledge of an application domain, in the way that SQL has built-in knowledge of the relational database domain.

The term was invented by Jim Martin to refer to non-procedural high level languages built around database systems.

Fourth generation languages are close to natural language and were built with the concept that certain applications could be generalised by adding limited programming ability to them.

When given a description of the data format and the report to generate, a 4GL system produces COBOL (or other 3GL) code, that actually reads and processes the data and formats the results.

Some examples of 4GL are: database query language e.g.SQL; Focus, Metafont, PostScript, S, IDL-PV, WAVE, Gauss, Mathematica, and data-stream languages such as AVS, APE, Iris Explorer.

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The consecutive invention of assemblers, compilers, editors, third and fourth generation languages, structured languages, Object-Oriented Programming, rules-based systems, CASE, repositories, databases, and data warehouses have advanced much more slowly than their hardware counterparts.

SANs And Software Development by Moore, Fred / Computer Technology Review

Vader will support application components built in Progress's fourth generation language or Java, and other languages.

PROGRESS UNIVERSAL ARCHITECTURE TO SUPPORT DCOM by Computergram International

Migration away from a fourth generation language such as COOL:Gen is just one aspect of a much larger modernization trend in the IT world," said Dreier.

BluePhoenix Completes Conversion Project Of COOL:Gen To COBOL by Business Wire

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