Informix news release in my mailbox

Hi family, I (and probably most of you) just got this my (your) mailbox: ***INFORMIX NEWS FOR PARTNERS*** Hot off the Press: INFORMIX REVITALIZES 4GL APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Continued Commitment Addresses Global Deployment, Performance and Year 2000 Solutions http://www.informix.com/informix/corpinfo/ifxnews/press/1998/4gl.htm Chasing that link, here's an excerpt: INFORMIX-4GL 7.2 delivers several new features requested by the Informix VAR and developer community. Developers can now deploy a single application to the world market, leveraging the 4GL Global Language Support (GLS) deployment platform. DBCENTURY provides a fast and reliable solution to "Year 2000" (Y2K) risks, and a simple upgrade path for applications which were initially coded to support two digit year fields. Additionally, the new release provides improved performance, ensuring more responsive business applications. OK, now for features we REALLY wanted: How about: - Automatic highlighting of lines in DISPLAY and INPUT ARRAY? - Row-addressed navigation in DISPLAY and INPUT ARRAY i.e. NEXT ROW or NEXT FIELD row[n].field - NEXT FIELD field_name in a variable - OPEN WINDOW window_name in a variable And about 2.1 zillion feature requests listed in the IIUG archives. You know, stuff that would ease our lives as 4GL programmers, letting us do the kind of things C (and ESQL) programmers can do. Any Informed persons out there to offer a knowledgeable opinion? -- -- Jake (Retrospectively realizes there is no future in hindsight) +------------------------------------------------------------+ | The expedient performance of a task with excessive concern | | regarding its duration-to-completion engenders a virtual | | certainty of diminished benefit therefrom. | | -- Benjamin Franklin (but he said it in 3 words) | +------------------------------------------------------------+