Editing IBM Informix-4GL (section)

{{Short description|Fourth generation programming language}}
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| released=February 15, 1986<ref name="Bender1985" />
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'''Informix-4GL''' is a [[fourth-generation language|4GL]] [[programming language]] developed by [[Informix Corporation|Informix]] during the mid-1980s.<ref name="Bender1985">{{cite journal
|last=Bender |first=Eric |date=December 30, 1985
|title=RDS announces SQL-based fourth-generation language: Targets application development on Unix
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKWy2rYxAQQC&pg=PA12
|journal=[[Computerworld]] |publisher=IDG Enterprise |volume=19 |page=12}}</ref><ref name="Flannery2000">{{cite book
   |last=Flannery |first=Ron |title=The Informix Handbook |year=2000 |publisher=Prentice Hall PTR|isbn=978-0-13-012247-6}}</ref><ref name="Lebensorger2013">{{cite book
|first=Reinhard |last=Lebensorger |title=Effiziente Datenbankentwicklung mit INFORMIX-4GL: Design, Implementierung und Optimierung
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=43nSBgAAQBAJ |date=March 9, 2013
|publisher=Springer-Verlag |language=German |isbn=978-3-322-90418-8}}</ref> At the time of its initial release in 1986, supported platforms included [[Xenix|Microsoft Xenix]] (on [[IBM Personal Computer/AT|IBM PC AT]]), [[Ultrix|DEC Ultrix]] (running on [[MicroVAX II|Microvax II]], [[VAX-11/750]], [[VAX-11/785]], [[VAX 8000#VAX 8600|VAX 8600]]), [[Altos Computer Systems#Subsequent products|Altos 2086]], [[AT&T 3B2]], AT&T 3B5, AT&T 3B20 and [[AT&T UNIX PC|AT&T Unix PC]].<ref name="Bender1985" />