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

2013-06-11 Thread Laurent Pointal
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 18:17:33 -0700, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: Perhaps Scripting language is the best general category we have that Python fits into. But I hope not. Heh... Having encountered ARexx

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

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Angel
On 06/11/2013 03:48 PM, Laurent Pointal wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 18:17:33 -0700, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: SNIP The C compiler suites used this ability to read the error log from a compile, and

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

2013-06-11 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Dave Angel da...@davea.name wrote: On 06/11/2013 03:48 PM, Laurent Pointal wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 18:17:33 -0700, Dan Stromberg drsali...@gmail.com declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: SNIP The C

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

2013-06-05 Thread Ian Kelly
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

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

2013-06-04 Thread Tim Chase
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

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

2013-06-04 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 05/06/2013 01:14, Tim Chase wrote: 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,

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

2013-06-04 Thread Carlos Nepomuceno
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