On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Carlos Nepomuceno <carlosnepomuc...@outlook.com> wrote: > I don't have an opinion yet, but I've found contradictory evidence from many > sources, such as: > > "A domain-specific language (DSL) is a type of programming language or > specification language in software development and domain engineering > dedicated to a particular problem domain, > [...] > The opposite is: > > a general-purpose programming language, such as C, Java or Python," > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_programming_language > > Since, 4GL is considered a subset of DSLs, this wiki page doesn't consider > Python a 4GL. > > Is is true? Why???
I wasn't previously familiar with the 3GL / 4GL nomenclature, but based upon the definitions given at Wikipedia, Python is clearly a 3GL. That said, virtually all general-purpose languages in common usage today would be 3GLs, so the distinction does not seem terribly useful to me. The terms "4GL" and "5GL" while suggesting a language that is somehow more "advanced" than a 3GL, seem to be mainly 80s hype. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
