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by tannhaeuser 622 days ago
> COBOL and 4GLs in general

COBOL dates back to 1959, much earlier than 4GLs, and the cited 1992/1999 articles make the point that 4GLs were poised to replace the likes of COBOL and FORTRAN when in fact those dinosaurs, or rather nautili since still living, turned out to outlive 4GLs except SQL (when counted as 4GL).
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fuzztester 621 days ago
Informix 4GL is still alive and well (somewhat, anyway):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Informix-4GL.

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antonvs 621 days ago
Arguably, Python is what 4GLs turned into or were supplanted by.
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