alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 5 months agoIt's called attaining divinitysh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1545
arrow-up1545imageIt's called attaining divinitysh.itjust.worksalphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoI think C was 2nd, 3. is Java and Python, 4 SQL and 5th would be some hypothetical AI instruction language?
minus-squarethefool@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoSQL has been around since the 1970s
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoThat doesn’t mean it’s not higher level than other languages from more recent times.
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoLevel means level of abstraction. Right?
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoWhen 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)
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoI think we mean different kinds of “generations”.
I think C was 2nd, 3. is Java and Python, 4 SQL and 5th would be some hypothetical AI instruction language?
SQL has been around since the 1970s
That doesn’t mean it’s not higher level than other languages from more recent times.
Level means level of abstraction. Right?
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)
I think we mean different kinds of “generations”.