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Suffering ceepie-geepies! Do we need a new processor architecture?

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Re: Been here before

I was thinking more of the Japanese "Fifth Generation" which was intended to run Logic Programming because that was the bees-knees of AI back in the 1980s.

The inevitable Wikipedia article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer

- although that me grit my teeth because it presents "argument" that there were "parallel generations of programming languages" because they've fallen hook, line and sinker for the "4GL" marketing twaddle that came out because of misreading the line "Prolog is the language of the Fifth Generation" as "Prolog is a fifth generation language" so we can call our database language "fourth generation" and then retrofitting "SQL is 4GL" to the claim here that "TeX is 4GL".

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