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Program Language Generations

July 21, 2009 · by Kevin Runde

Programming Language Generations

What ever happened to program language generations? When I was going to school I always heard about how C and C++ were a Third Generation Programming languages and there were new Fourth Generation Programming Languages like Power Builder coming which would make programming SO much easier. Then Java came out and the focus on programming changed from Client Server or Desktop Applications to Web Apps. When that happened I stopped hearing people talk about programming language generations and instead focused on extending current languages with new APIs, specs and plugins. So what happened? People didn’t stop creating programming languages. In reality several great new languages have come out like Python and Ruby. Both are relatively new and are significantly faster to develop in.

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#1 - Jose Lopez said on Sep 29, 2009:
I started playing with Ruby on Rails and liked it. I was trying to find some adapter to connect to a MS Access database and did not find anything. Does anyone knows about it? If so, please let me know.
#2 - Kevin Runde said on Oct 1, 2009:
Ruby on Rails by default uses Active Record as its ORM layer. Here is one MS Access adapter I found via Google:
http://blog.behindlogic.com/2007/06/activerecord-msaccessadapter.html

In general though it is recommended to not use MS Access. If you just need a simple file based DB Ruby on Rails has support for SQLite3. If you just want a free database there is always the option of MySQL and Postgres as well. I have used all 3 of those databases and had great success with them.
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