Re: Informix 10 vs Oracle 10g

Posted in 2005

DA Morgan — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:48:56 -0800 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

M Segel wrote: > Konikoff, Rob (Contractor) wrote: > > >>>Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> >>>>Can you understand now how pissed off the Informix community is? >>> >>>Actually yes I can ... and with good reason. But we are where we are >>>but bemoaning the loss of the original Borland will not bring back >>>Pascal either. >> >>Well, since we're bringing back the oldies, can we have a little FORTRAN >>and a dash of PL1? >>sending to informix-list > > > Uhm Fortran is still in use. Actually yes. And I wouldn't be at all surprised to find it in the kernel code of every commercial RDBMS. You want fast math routines: You use Fortran. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)