Re: NewEra, Powerbuilder or Visual Basic?

Posted in 1996

William Harris — 19 Jun 1996 20:38:06 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <4q5lqd$q2k@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za says... >PB is pretty much the same, although they claim OO. I think they might have >just confused OO with event-driven... No, PB can probably now be called truly object-oriented - it does support inheritance, polymorphism, private and public variables, true classes in the C++ sense, and a number of the other things normally associated with object-oriented languages. There are non-object oriented things about it (thinking of the Datawindow construct - ick), but it's at least as object-oriented as, say, Delphi. It -is- easy to confuse a Windows control with an "object", but that's an issue for some other time. -- William Harris william@carsinfo.com CARS Information Systems 4000 Executive Park Drive Cincinnati, OH (USA) 45241