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From: raveling@vaxa.isi.edu (Paul Raveling)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: UNIX SHELL AS 4GL
Keywords: UNIX, 4GL
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Date: 1 Jul 88 16:20:40 GMT
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In article <3475@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rsp@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Steve Price) writes:
>Without permission, for your edification & entertainment I post this quotation:
>
>    UNIX Shell is the Best Fourth Generation Programming Language
>
>    It is the UNIX shell that makes it possible to do applications in a small 
>    fraction of the code and time it takes in third generation languages.  In 
>    the shell you process whole files at a time, instead of only a line at a 
>    time.  And, a line of code in the UNIX shell is one or more programs,
>    which do more than pages of instructions in a 3GL.  Applications can be
>    developed in hours and days, rather than months and years with traditional
>    systems.  Most of the other 4GLs available today look more like COBOL or
>    RPG, the most tedious of the third generation lanaguages.

	This is a good candidate for funniest computing quote --
	even better than the one where IBM claimed it invented
	virtual memory.  Should be worth cross-posting to rec.humor.


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Paul Raveling
Raveling@vaxa.isi.edu