RE: informix developer tool
Sorry Art, You may call them Tools of the trade. But nomenclature is important when you need to communicate an idea or concept. I'm now having to reverse a script I wrote for production because I did what they said they wanted, not what they really wanted. And of course, it was a rush job so there wasn't really time to get in to their head and you had to trust that they knew what they were saying.... Yet I digress. The point is that these are not tools but 'standard' APIs and Languages. Its great that you know them, but when someone asks about tools, they want the IDEs and environments that let you get your work done. -G PS. I wasn't the only one who missed the 'red flags'. I'm just the guy who has to fix it. ;-) God I am starting to hate unicode. Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:24:57 -0400 From: art.kagel@gmail.com To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Fwd: informix developer tool On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Rajesh Nair <rohin.nair@gmail.com> wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gumby@hotmail.com> wrote: On Aug 25, 3:42 pm, "Art Kagel" <art.ka...@gmail.com> wrote: > Develoment tools for Informix: > > Informix 4GL > Perl DBI > ESQL/C > ODBC > JDBC These are not tools... Sorry fellow trench trudger, but those are the tools of my trade, at least some of them. Tools are in the eye of the beholder. The OP mentions TOAD and editing SQL, but is that ALL he wants to accomplish? I dunno, so I listed many tools of different capabilities and uses. If the guy had said: "Using a manual hammer is SO tiring, plebian, and boring aren't there other tools I can use to work with wood? Steel has welders I can use?" Would you have stopped at mentioning stable and nail guns and Elmer's Carpenter's Glue? Or would you also mention saws and rulers, and levels, and ... You get the point (I hope). Oh, and no snide matching of materials chosen for the analogy to RDBMS products from the lurkers and trolls out there. Art I-4GL - Language. (Unless you're talking about RDS) Perl-DBI - Perl Module ESQL/C - Language ODBC - API interface JDBC - API interface I agree that there are tools out there. SquirrelDB is another one. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list -- Art S. Kagel Oninit (www.oninit.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Oninit, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly or implicitly. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. _________________________________________________________________ See what people are saying about Windows Live. Check out featured posts. http://www.windowslive.com/connect?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_connect2_082008