Re: New era ???

In article <47t6m4$ml1@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, bw000001@pixie.co.za (Billy Wheeler) wrote: >>How good is new era. We are developing a new system and should decide > >New Era is *much* better than Visual Basic! At the heart of Visual Basic is >a language called BASIC - would you develop an app in BASIC? At the heart of >NE is Informix-4GL - much better for developing _real_ apps... > >Seriously, VB is very good for prototyping and front-ending apps, but it >doesn't have the power as a language for complex apps. While I agree with the sentiment I'm sick of hearing people bad-mouth BASIC. Modern-day BASICs are the same as any other modern high-level structured procedural language, including Informix-"4GL". Of course their database integration might be a bit crappy... In fact Informix-"4GL" is one of the few BASICs around that *still* insist on the use of "LET" when assigning values to variables! >>going client server and i need a answer ASAP. >>Is their any proof out their that client server works? > >None whatsoever. :-) > ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.4 Oct 95 Quanta Systems, Auckland | kcbbs.gen.nz:/informix/informix.[faq|apx] New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | mathcs.emory.edu:/pub/informix/faq/ " " Home: +64 9 279-3571 | http://www.garpac.com/informix.html