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From time to time vendors in the application development space have claimed 5GL (5th generation language) capabilities.<ref>[http://www.it-analysis.com/channels/content.php?cid=9096 What makes a 5GL?]</ref> Most of the time they actually sell 4GLs with a higher level of automation and knowledge base. Since the 5GL awareness has dropped because the hype of the 80's quickly faded away and that the projects were eventually all dropped; this has opened doors to the vendors to re-use the term in marketing their new tools, without causing much controversy among the current generations of programmers. Their tools actually consist of 4GLs packed with [[Rapid_application_development|RAD]] wizards, case tools and other graphical coding assistance that facilitates code generation.
However, these 'time-saving' tools and features consist in no way an actual higher level of abstraction than the current 4GL, business oriented development tools
==See also==
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