Re: New Era, VB, Delphi, PB

Billy Wheeler wrote: } } On 15 Nov 96 at 14:04, Oliver Townshend wrote: } } > > What are the pros and cons of using PB. } > > VS New Era Vs VB Vs Delphi? } > > } > Having programmed in both NewEra and Delphi I must say that I think } > Delphi is by far and away the superior product, and unless you need } > portability to X-Windows, there is little to recommend it. I think you } > will also find Delphi programs easier to get than New Era. } } Borland have always been good at providing development tools, and I } can't say anything bad about Delphi, except that it's based on } Pascal, and that's purely a matter of opinion.... :-). } } But what about application partitioning? This is not something that } is just an academic issue - we find real uses for partitioning in } almost every system we develop. } } Also, if you have a substantial investment in Informix-4GL code, then } NE must receive preference over every other tool. } } Because we'd spent many years developing 4GL apps, we were extremely } reluctant to adopt any Client/Server tool. NewEra gave me and my } customers a useful (albeit imperfect) upgrade path. We have found } that NE has improved with leaps and bounds with every release and are } quite happy with the strategic decision we have taken to use NewEra } exclusively. } } > I can't really comment on the other two except to say that I loathe VB } > because it is not (remotely) Object Oriented, and I question the ability } > to use it in a large project, but plenty of people seem to. } } Amen. You are spot on in your comments. I have programmed in Pascal for 16 years so I find Delphi excellent, but each to their own. The site where I started with New-Era had no investment whatsoever in Informix 4GL, so it was irrelevant as an upgrade path. If there is no 4gl investment then I would hesitate to recommend New-Era. Application partitioning can be done with Delphi 2.0 on an NT box. See Web-Hub for an example of this. Oliver