Re: INFORMIX WISH LIST

On 16 Jun 97 at 10:39, Richard Stanford wrote: > I'd say so. Just because Informix can write a good DBMS, it doesn't > follow that they're good language designers. More to the point, the But they *have* designed a good language. Or two. 4GL didn't become a world beater for nothing. NewEra is actually quite a good language, but for some reason Informix are embarrassed about saying so... :-( > extra time it takes to teach a developer a new language is (or > should be) minimal if you're going to teach them how to develop > using event-driven and (maybe) OO code. Well,.... Learning to use NE in an event-driven environment doesn't really take all that long. Learning to write OO code *does* take a long time for procedural programmers, doesn't matter what your choice of OO language is. We have been using NE as an event-driven procedural tool for a long time now, and have only recently started to effectively use OO procedures - the difference in productivity has been staggering, but it's taken us a long time to learn how to think objects... -- Ciao, Billy Nose to the ground and ear to the grindstone in: Kuwait *55* Degrees Celsius and climbing!