Re: The Elements of Informix-4gl Style?

Posted in 1992

Walt Hultgren {rmy} — Sun, 8 Mar 92 10:50:21 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Path: emory!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!news2me.ebay.sun.com!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!appserv.Eng.Sun.COM!sun!amdcad!weitek!pyramid!infmx!news From: cortesi@informix.com (David Cortesi) Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Mar6.213037.262@informix.com> Date: 6 Mar 92 21:30:37 GMT References: <1992Mar5.021035.18374@StarConn.com> Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News) Reply-To: cortesi@informix.com Organization: Informix Software, Inc. In article <1992Mar5.021035.18374@StarConn.com> pmahler@StarConn.com (Paul Mahler) writes: > > Looking at most informix programs makes me want to puke. They > all look like they were written at terminals with organ pedals > instead of a shift key...This seems to be an artifact of the very first > examples that came out of Informix where all the key words > were in upper case and lots of extra blank lines were inserted. Mahler, next time you set foot in 4100 Bohannon you better be wearing armor...