fifth generation language

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
fifth generation language

   <language, artificial intelligence> A myth the Japanese spent
   a lot of money on.  In about 1982, {MITI} decided it would
   spend ten years and a lot of money applying {artificial
   intelligence} to programming, thus solving the {software
   crisis}.  The project spent its money and its ten years and in
   1992 closed down with a wimper.

   (1996-11-06)
    

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