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Much is made of the ‘fourth generation’ concept and the term is regularly applied to a multitude of high-level languages and software systems. However, until recently, development methodologies had little of substance to offer that reflected the fourth generation and the style of development implied by the concept
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MacDonald, I.G. (1988). Automating Information Engineering. In: Benyon, D., Skidmore, S. (eds) Automating Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1033-4_18
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