Informix-4GL
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Informix 4GL is a 4GL programming language developed by Informix around 1986 but still widely used to develop business applications. It includes embeded SQL, a report writer language, a form language, and a limited set of imperative capabilities (like functions, if and while statements, etc).
Informix-4GL's popularity created a sizeable market of around it. Several companies produced clone versions, some of them with extended functionalities, such as GUI(s) and full IDEs, namely 4JS and Querix. A company in Latin America built a translator to the Java programming language. There is even a free GPLd version called Aubit-4GL.
Informix-4GL is now property of IBM.
History
The beginning of Informix-4GL was in 1985. Pcode came a few years later. Chris Moloney was the chief architect of the project, while Roy Harrington was the chief architect in charge of the related Informix Turbo engine. There were several flavors of Informix-4GL produced, including the discontinued New Era (which supported Object-oriented programming).