User:Mr248/4GL Timeline
These are some notes on timeline of 4GL languages. I am thinking about turning this into a draft article, but for now it is just a user subpage.
| Year | Name | Vendor | Platforms | Notes |
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| 1967 | MARK IV | Informatics General
Sterling Software (1985) Computer Associates (2000) Broadcom (2018) |
IBM System/360 (and successors) | Renamed by CA to CA VISION:BUILDER. |
| 1969 / 1979 | MAPPER | Sperry Univac
Unisys (1986) |
UNIVAC 1100/2200 series | 1969 internal use, 1979 official release. |
| 1960s | RAMIS | Mathematica
Martin Marietta Corporation (1983) On-Line Software International (1987) Computer Associates (1991) Broadcom (2018) |
Original platform(s) ???
Ported to VP/CSS |
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| 1971–1972 | Easytrieve | Ribek Corporation
Pansophic (1979) Computer Associates (1991) Broadcom (2018) |
Original platforms: IBM Systems 360/370 and RCA Series 70 mainframes
Later ported to MS-DOS and OS/2 ("CA-Easytrieve/Workstation"), UNIX (in particular AIX and HP-UX), Linux, Windows |
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| 1975 | NOMAD | National CSS
Dun & Bradstreet (1979) Must Software International (1986) Thomson Software Products (1995) Aonix (1996) Select Business Solutions (2005?) |
VP/CSS (original platform)
VM/CMS (1982) MVS (1983) MS-DOS (late 1980s???) Microsoft Windows 3.x (1993) Unix (early 1990s?) VMS (early 1990s?) |
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| 1975 onwards | FOCUS | Information Builders | ||
| 1970s | Pacbase | Compagnie Générale d'Informatique (CGI)
IBM (early 1990s) |
Originally named PAC 700, then Pacbase, then VisualAge Pacbase | |
| 1981 | TELON | Christensen Systems, Inc
Pansophic (1984) Computer Associates (1991) Broadcom (2018) |
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| 1981 | Cross System Product (CSP) | IBM | MVS, VM/CMS, DOS/VSE
CICS, DB2, SQL/DS |
In 1994, IBM introduced VisualGen product as successor. (Not clear how much VisualGen and CSP had in common, but IBM offered a tool to translate existing CSP apps to VisualGen.) In 2006, renamed to IBM VisualAge Generator. IBM then open-sourced that as EGL / EDT. |
| 1982 | PowerHouse | Quasar
Cognos (1983 name change) IBM (2008) UNICOM Global (2013) |
HP3000 MPE (platform of origin)
Various Unix MS-DOS (1988) Microsoft Windows (1995) |
With the Windows port, the programming language was rebranded as "Axiant 4GL" |
| 1985 (c.) | Informix-4GL | Informix
IBM (2001) |
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| 1985 (c.) | SystemBuilder/SB+ | Computermatic
Unidata (1996) Ardent Software (1998) Informix (2000) IBM (2001) Rocket Software (2009) |
Designed for PICK databases. Development started in South Africa, then moved to Sydney, Australia. Development continued in Sydney until 2005, at which point IBM transferred development to the US.
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| 1987 | CA Gen | Texas Instruments
Sterling Software (1997) Computer Associates (2000) Broadcom (2018) |
MVS (original platform; CICS and DB2)
Later ported to Unix, Linux, Windows |
Originally called IEF (Information Engineering Facility)
Later names: Composer by IEF, Composer, COOL:Gen, Advantage:Gen, AllFusion Gen |
| 1992 | PowerBuilder | PowerSoft
Sybase (1994) SAP (2010) Appeon (2016) |
Microsoft Windows |