Re: 4GL Certification Test Writing Contest

Tim Schaefer wrote: > > > Write questions for the INFORMIX-4GL Developer Certification Exam > > and receive $50 for each one chosen for the final pool of questions! > > Forgive me for being a devils' advocate, but I just have to ask: > > Why on earth would anyone care about this now, with 4GL on a > respirator? It's a dead product. > > I mean, this looks like something that should have come out when > 4GL was born, not now, when its' life is ending. Maybe you could > sponsor this for Universal Server or for something that's worth > spending the time and money on. I'm afraid Tim that you are wrong... From what I've heard, today the I-4GL market still represent for Informix a tremendous income. Thousands of companies all over the world are still using the I-4GL language and can't afford to switch to something newer. These companies are still buying development licenses and runtimes... NewEra is not compatible with I-4GL and the Compass project is very expensive and takes a lot of time. A lot of people who even tried NewEra for new developments gave up after a while. Now, Informix doesn't have another development environment than I-4GL, and it's not a bad language, even if it's 10 years old. In you read daily "comp.databases.informix", don't you see heaps of job offers for I-4GL programmers ? Don't you think that's a market sign ? Also look how many companies are selling developpement tools around that language (compilers, CASE Tools, etc...). Georges -- Georges A. Tomazi Four J's Development Tools tomazi@4js.com | 75020 Paris (France) | URL: http://www.4js.com