On the Cusp of Change

I've been writing code on and off for a long time and used a variety of different languages and supporting technologies. From my perspective, there's been two distinct cycles of development technology during my time in the industry. I started out programming using 3GL's such as C and Pascal. On top of those languages we added ever increasing layers of abstraction to accelerate the development process. Ultimately we ended up using 4GL's such as PowerBuilder and Visual Basic.