Re: Prepare for the unwashed hordes!

In article <35bda602.5506609@news.newmedia.no>, Nils Myklebust <Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com> writes >On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:45:06 -0500, Brian Fahrlander ><kilroy@kamakiriad.com> wrote: > >>Nils Myklebust wrote: > >>> Dynamic 4GL should be capable of compiling most any 4GL code straight >>> without any changes. There have been some reports that it's stricter >>> than Informix standard 4GL that can lead to some problems. >>> Applications can be executed in standard character mode on any >>> terminal just like the old 4GL or you can have a GUI (of sorts >>> perhaps) on an MS Windows machine or X Windows. >> >> Dynamic? What do they mean by "Dynamic"? > >It runs with Informix Dynamic Server :-) It's a) renamed to give a consistent product naming (same as 4GL went from 8.05->7.2 with no 7.1x). >Or it's "dynamic" in that it can change it's apperance from character >based to GUI? b) correct. set FGIGUI=1 and it runs as GUI, otherwise character. We have run as both from the same source and same compiled code. (xx.42e runs as either from the SAME UNIX binary!!). >Realy marketing only of course, and that's actually quite good. In >this case Dynamic gives an impression of something more, better, >featurerich... whatever, than standard Informix 4GL. Informix allways >needed a lot more marketing and this is but a tiny part of that. > >>> There are also at least two other companies that make 4GL clones that >>> either are awailable now or will be soon. >>> >>> All this where announce on the IWUC conference last week, but didn't >>> seem to make it out to the "masses". >>> >>> With all this may be you don't need a primer on ESQL/C :-) >> >> I hope not; I have four years of hard-and-fast training on 4GL. If >>I invest the time to install/run/learn esql/c, I might as well learn C >>and GTK or something. > >May be you should look at Java then. High performance Java >connectivity in the form of JDBC drivers will be available from >OpenLink in a few days. >Java will bring you much faster forward and much further than C when >it comes to bussiness type applications. Of course C can bring you a >little deaper down at least for now. That may change one day though. >Just a thought. > > >Nils Myklebust >NM Data AS >Norway >E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com >FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html >(Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".) -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care