Do you consider Python a 4GL? Why (not)?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jun 4 20:21:44 EDT 2013


On 05/06/2013 01:14, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-06-05 02:53, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote:
>> Do you consider Python a 4GL? Why (not)?
>
> Of course it's a 4GL ("4 Guido Language").  You think he wrote it for
> somebody else?
>
> Unless you have some magical list of criteria that makes your own
> definition of "4GL", in which case you should look at your list of
> those "4GL" definitions and weigh them against publicly known facts
> about Python, yielding the answer to your question. :-P
>
> -tkc
>
>

"Publicly known facts" as in Python is a weakly typed language? :)

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Mark Lawrence




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