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

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Date Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:14:22 -0500
From Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
To Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuceno@outlook.com>
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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

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Re: Do you consider Python a 4GL? Why (not)? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-06-04 19:14 -0500

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