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    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 languages.

"UNIX Relational Database Management:  Application Development in the UNIX

 Environment" by Rod Manis, Evan Schaffer, and Robert Jorgensen.  Prentice

 Hall Software Series.  Brian Kerrighan, Advisor.  1988.

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System/3!  System/3!

See how it runs!  See how it runs!

    Its monitor loses so totally!

    It runs all its programs in RPG!

    It's made by our favorite monopoly!

System/3!

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Real World, The, n.:

    1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may

be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc.  2. To

programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related

to programming.  3. A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and

tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5.  4.

The location of the status quo.  5. Anywhere outside a university.

"Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the real world."  Used

pejoratively by those not in residence there.  In conversation, talking

of someone who has entered the real world is not unlike talking about a

deceased person.

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