From: Mike Stephens Date: 2011-09-06T04:13:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby a "4th generation language"? Credible sources? Roger Pack wrote in post #1019851: > We tell it to read a file > and it spits out Fortran Probably a useful way of looking at generations. A 4GL builds on 3GL contructs, taking away the need for you to write predictable things. 4GLs were of their time. That time has passed. Write one today and Rubyists would call is a DSL, not being reflective enough to see all languages are domain specific to varying degrees. 4GLs were good. Apart from keeping me in beer for more than decade, they encouraged you to do simple things in preference to flashy things. Most things in business are open to simple solutions, and you write things faster and with less errors. Ruby is prone to over-sophistication, with certain clever people like David Heinemeier Hansson unable to resist the temptation. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.