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SQL is a pretty successful 4GL language I'd say.
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Yeah, and I'd say Excel+VBA/VB.NET/VSTO/C#-interop was/is, too.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Very true. Giving it more thought I suppose 4GL did find its niche in "data languages" like query and report languages.
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Other examples would be Stata, Simulink and Wolfram.
I believe niche or specialized is the word here. I don't think 4GL will ever have a breakthrough among generic use.
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Only because 4GL was redefined. Originally, 4GL was "programming just like Legos!" (AI is also constantly doing the redefinition thing.)
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I've never heard SQL described as a 4GL.
The Wikipedia article provides (as usual) a good overview of different things considered 4GL.
Fourth-generation programming language - Wikipedia[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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And SQL is in the list of examples if you follow your own link.
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Fair enough, my bad.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The latest release from the division’s AI experiments series is a new web app that lets you collaborate with a neural network to draw doodles of everyday objects. It still looks like a poorly drawn circle and a non-straight line
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A Pennsylvania judge has sentenced Adam Flanagan, 42, of Bala Cynwyd, PA to one year and one day in prison for hacking and damaging the IT networks of several water utility providers across the US East Coast. Is it just me, or does there seem to be a lot of this going around?
Yeah, I know. It was done in 2014, but there seem to be a lot of news about these kind of hacks recently.
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Maybe they are trying to infer fear in possible hackers after the big leak of Windows sources 
Just as: Ok... We maybe have no idea, but if you do anything you will pay for it anyways.
Was it in the states that if you leave your door unlocked, then a stranger is not "doing" trespass? Why is in other way with software? If vendors leave the doors opened, is not the same?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Researchers have built an electrocaloric refrigerator the size of a beverage coaster that can generate a temperature difference of about 2 K between the hot and cold ends of the device. Because 'electrocaloric' is my new favourite word
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We need stuff like this. 
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Cool. Literally.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Cool. Literally.
On the other end it is rather hot! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The only limitation is that it kills everything within a 10 mile radius.
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New research builds on the pioneering use of machine learning algorithms with brain imaging technology to "mind read." Beware of the next job interview where they want you to sit in an fMRI machine
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The Visual Studio debugger is a magical beast that can save you loads of time while finding and fixing issues in your application. It is chock-full of tools that can make debugging easier… if you know they exist, and where to find them! Just in case you're lesser knowing
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VS 2017, the lesser known Visual Studio.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube have launched a partnership aimed at combating terrorists online. "As always, should you or any of your force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions."
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It has been a nightmare on Elgin Street. For several months, remote control on car keys in a tiny part of Carlton had stopped worked, until the surprising culprit was found. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Buggy Button Brouhaha
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Couldn't they use the mechanical key?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Google is leading the pack when it comes to quantum computing. The company is testing a 20-qubit processor – its most powerful quantum chip yet – and is on target to have a working 49-qubit chip by the end of this year. All those cats, all those boxes... The HorROR!
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B.S. -- you can't predict a breakthrough -- hence the term.
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