Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!sdcrdcf!trwrb!aero!venera.isi.edu!raveling From: raveling@vaxa.isi.edu (Paul Raveling) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: UNIX SHELL AS 4GL Keywords: UNIX, 4GL Message-ID: <5818@venera.isi.edu> Date: 1 Jul 88 16:20:40 GMT References: <3475@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> Sender: news@venera.isi.edu Reply-To: raveling@vaxa.isi.edu (Paul Raveling) Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute Lines: 22 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. --------------------- Paul Raveling Raveling@vaxa.isi.edu