Tag Libraries as Fifth Generation Languages
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2008-04-03
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The Open Information Systems Journal
Abstract
This essay weighs the notion that Web-based tag libraries represent the fifth generation of computer languages.
A brief survey of the history of computer languages is provided as is an indication of why it is useful to conventionally
categorize computer languages into “generations”. The essay argues that the current conventional ascription of generations
is incorrect and that it should be replaced with one based on what the author terms “the principle of abstraction”.
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History of computer languages, Generations of computer languages, Web-based tag libraries
Citation
Mark Cyzyk. "Tag Libraries as Fifth Generation Languages," The Open Information Systems Journal, v2(1), 2008, pp 11-16.