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[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

When I learnt programming (back in early 2000s) the textbook said C is a high level 3rd generation language with 4th gen languages being something higher (I don't remember what examples were given specifically). This is back when the java applets and action script for flash were the hot things. How I miss the days without the world being cursed by JS.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I think C was 2nd, 3. is Java and Python, 4 SQL and 5th would be some hypothetical AI instruction language?

[-] thefool@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

SQL has been around since the 1970s

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

That doesn't mean it's not higher level than other languages from more recent times.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Level means level of abstraction. Right?

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When the gp's book says that C is a third generation language: I would guess the first generation is Fortran and the second generation contains ALGOL and BCPL. C was heavily influenced by BCPL. (get it? C comes after B)

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I think we mean different kinds of "generations".

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Java applets and flash were an absolute security nightmare of the highest degree.

You were just running applications on your computer.

If you had to download and run an application on your computer to view a website now people would lose their minds (and rightly so)

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