WIZDOM for WINDOWS: simulating human thought processes
B. Vardi · The Computer Bulletin · 1996
The use of object-oriented applications development is currently increasing and will surely influence the decisions regarding implementation strategies and software tool deployment during the remainder of this decade. Historically, the evolution of computer languages is divided into four generations: the first includes the binary languages, sequences of the bits; the second includes the assemblers; the third includes the highlevel languages, Cobol PL/1 etc.; the fourth includes the non-procedural languages and WYSIWYG. Could it be that the object-oriented (OO) methodology is the primary representative of the fifth generation?