Re: Which Front End to Choose for Development

In article <19971203154300.KAA25759@ladder02.news.aol.com>, Mjgator <mjgator@aol.com> writes >I am really in a quandry these days. Lived with 4GL for a long time. Am now >developing in New Era. Talk to the Informix support group and they say NE is >scheduled to be a "live" product for about 2 more years. After that, who >knows. Well..who DOES know? The Informix database engines seem fairly stable, >but for new development projects that will be in existence for MORE than 2 >years, what does anyone predict would be the best front end to use for graphic >screen development? I have heard 4GL may meet its demise also. Crystal >Reports and its ilk are fine for fairly simple reports, but none have the power >of a 4GL report. Does anyone in this group have predictions, recommendations >for possibilities on "where to do from here?" I'm at a loss! > >Thanks...MJ I don't think you can predict anymore. what about all the people how developed apps in VB 3 and found it did not scale well? or had a 64Kb limit for the amout of controls on a form? Or who developed DB apps in the first release of Visual C++ and now realize - it takes much longer to develop in Visual C than Delphi/VB. - Their version of Visual C++ has been replaced several times and their apps probably need major rework. Or wrote in Deplhi 1.0 - I've heard the class library is different in Delphi 2.0. Or who write in Java and see MIcrosoft's 'discussion' with Netspace about whether it is still fully supported by Microsoft. Or how wrote in plain Java and now see JAvaBeans, a new JDK and Javascript. Development tools are changing so fast that any application written even 3 years ago will be using tools which programmers today will not want to work and class them as "out of date". Who now wants to work on Windows 3.1 (does Microsoft still offically support Windows 3.1?) and VB 3.0. Tools are changing so fast I'd wait until they settle a bit more and clear winners appear. VB was all the rage now Delphi 3.0 appears to have taken over as the "latest" tool to use.. Any I'm still using 4GL!! -- David Williams