Re: newbie question

Daniel Wright <dw420@airmail.net> wrote: : :Nils Myklebust wrote: : :> : What :> :ESQL/C is good for ? :> :> There is a development version if you are in the unhappy league of C :> programmers. Than you need that or the Informix CLI which is an ODBC :> driver (so you can use standard ODBC calls from your C application). : :Gee, I didn't know there was an "unhappy league of C programmers". I've :always been perfectly content with it. As to what good is ESQL/C, :writing efficient code easily springs to mind.But of course efficiency :is becoming something fewer and fewer people seem to care about, as is :ease of development/maintenance. After all, with less efficient code, :hardware vendors can make more sales as they come out with ever-faster :processors. And with hard to maintain code, contractors can always have :an excuse for billing more time. Hi Danny It wasn't meant that everyone involved with C are unhappy. C is a basic foundation in the computing industry. However higher level languages are there for a purpose. They are particularly important if time is a significant constraint which it so often is. C is hardly ever the best choice for application level programming. Even when performance is important modern tools will give you that. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org