Describe the following: 4GLs, classic programming languages, application generators, and macros. Explain how to protect yourself from macro viruses.

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Describe the following: 4GLs, classic programming languages, application generators, and macros. Explain how to protect yourself from macro viruses.

 

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4GL stands for fourth-generation language.
It is a nonprocedural language that enables us to access the database. Instructions are quite simpler (English like) and are written in the nonprocedural language for interacting with the graphical environment from retrieving data from database or files.
It is used by many object-oriented development tools.
For example SQL.

 

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