Re: From classical 4gl to Dynamic 4gl

On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Laurent COLLIGNON wrote: > I wonder if Dynamic 4gl is the same as the compiler we use since 2 > years now. Substantially, yes; Dynamic 4GL and the 4J's Universal Compiler are virtually the same product. There are differences between the two products, but they are minimal (for example, the 4J's product is called Universal Compiler, but Informix's is call Informix Dynamic 4GL). And we intend to keep the products synchronized. > It'll be the first time where german and french products reach a > worldwide production. 4J's, the company that wrote this compiler, has > made a simple and useful compiler. I'm not sure it is simple internally, but using it certainly is. > We developped 4 applications in 4GL 4.10 (start in 1988 !!!) which > sizes from 20000 to 200000 lines of code. The biggest one handle a > database of about 350 tables and our biggest customer's database > weight 1GB (under Informix SE 4.10). That's pretty big for an SE system. > In 1996 we were looking for and easy, secured and cheap way to migrate > from text-based client to Windows ones. A demo of the 4J's product at > our company and WITH OUR APPLICATIONS shows that, in only 4 hours and > a few compilations, it works !!! > [...lots of valuable information clipped...] Thank you for the glowing recommendation. Yours, Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <witticism.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN Informix IDN for D4GL & Linux -- http://www.informix.com/idn