Re: Experience with New Era - PowerBuilder procedural language.

Carlton R Harris <carlton@carlton.com> wrote: >It sounds to me like your client did not know what they were doing, to >say that the application was too tightly coupled to the database and was >difficult to then deploy just shows they did not understand NewEra and >did not design the application properly. Newera is a OO language and >sould be programmed as such, it is NOT a procedural language like >powerbuilder. >I am currently working on a large (350+) user NewEra application (it's >almost complete) and have been very impressed with the language, but you >are right to say that the tools are weak (Informix is updating them in >release 3). As a PowerBuilder developer with a substantial amount of experiance - I am a little confused. I always thought that a development environment such as PowerBuilder was event driven - and not a procedural language such as COBOL. Dan Fulton. ----------------------------------- Liverpool - The greatest team the world has ever seen Dan Fulton - Just plain Dan dan@fulton.u-net.com -----------------------------------