Re: INFORMIX WISH LIST

On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Mike Jagdis wrote: > Tim Schaefer said > > >I was told last year by Informix folk down south ( Ft. Lauderdale ) that > >New Era was primarily a migration product for shops with a big > >investment in 4GL wanting to move to GUI. > > So if you don't have a big investment in 4GL you are better off > rewriting in something non-Informix? :-) 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 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. Personally, I kinda like 4gl for text mode applications, but it /is/ limited. IMO, this is a good thing -- I'm getting more than a little sick of some of the 'kitchen-sink' type application development systems. If you need cross- platform graphical development, great. If not, 4gl really isn't that bad. -Richard