#3GL
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #3GL from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-07-28 12:06 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-07-28 12:06 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-07-28 12:06 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 3 public posts (spanning ~20950 hours).
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Mostly, software development happens in so-called 3rd generation languages (#3GL) which include everything from C to Python. An example of a #4GL is SQL which, undeniably, operates at a higher level of abstraction. There are other "4GL" bra
@dcz Nothing convinces me more of the sustained #ignorance of the #SoftwareDevelopment community for prior advances in #SoftwareEngineering than the reuse of common names/terms like #COSMIC. Almost like hearing someone excited about a new #
#3GL are a popularity contest defined by libraries and built-ins much more than by performance. This is both a positive and negative statement on #abstraction. Well defined abstraction of instruction makes for easier programming while poorl
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