Re: New Era: Your Opinion

On Fri, 7 Jul 1995, Logic wrote: > calvinng@technet.sg (Calvin Ng) wrote: > > DON'T DO IT.... > I am a windows programmer (5 year) and I have this year move to a > company that has just started using NewEra. And I must say if your > looking for a windows client/sever system you would be better severed > by a any other program. It's window paint is slow and very basic, with > almost no useful controls at all. Two control type (SuperTables and > SuperFields) look like they will do all your work for you, Don't be > fooled for if you wish to do any thing other than doing a query by > example and display (with it does with no code) it is almost > impossible. They sell it by saying "It's full OO" with it is, To a > level that means the code to put some text on the screen (basic PRINT > command or a C printf command) will look like this. > Call ixApp::Window1_WN.Label192_LD.setText(new ixstring("Hello")) > and thats a simple one. True OO is great if you have five years to sit > and talk about how you program will interface with the growing > software development and five more year to write the code. My programs > due to be finished be the end of next week. > Do you think that NewEra is that hard to learn? I am looking for a tool to do our c/s development. And to tell you the truth, I am not sure which one is best. We have looked at, PowerBuilder, VB, Gupta, Jam6, Uniface 6, NewEra. With PowerBuilder and VB and Gupta, you have to write a lot of code to do anything. Jam6, Uniface 6, and NewEra seem to do a lot for you. Each one has it faults. I am looking at Delphi right now, but it is not as open as I wish it would be. But with Delphi, you have to write a lot of code if you want to have your application to do a find. While other tools will just let you take something like a SuperTable and it does all the work for you. But with tools where they do a lot of work for you, well you are kind of stuck doing anything special because it just will not let you do it. Out of all the tools I have looked at, I like NewEra the best. It needs some work though. But the 4gl++ is very good and it is strong to let you do what you want. So what if you code looks something like this.(this.this).this("hello"); Looks like OOP to me. :) I am getting a demo of PassPort next week. It seems to be a cross from Jam6 and Uniface 6. It might be a good tool. I would like to hear all your complaints about NewEra, you can send me an e-mail if you want. But I would really like to know what I am getting myself into before I buy a tool. Thanks