Re: Prepare for the unwashed hordes!

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998 01:45:06 -0500, Brian Fahrlander <kilroy@kamakiriad.com> wrote: >Nils Myklebust wrote: >> Dynamic 4GL should be capable of compiling most any 4GL code straight >> without any changes. There have been some reports that it's stricter >> than Informix standard 4GL that can lead to some problems. >> Applications can be executed in standard character mode on any >> terminal just like the old 4GL or you can have a GUI (of sorts >> perhaps) on an MS Windows machine or X Windows. > > Dynamic? What do they mean by "Dynamic"? It runs with Informix Dynamic Server :-) Or it's "dynamic" in that it can change it's apperance from character based to GUI? Realy marketing only of course, and that's actually quite good. In this case Dynamic gives an impression of something more, better, featurerich... whatever, than standard Informix 4GL. Informix allways needed a lot more marketing and this is but a tiny part of that. >> There are also at least two other companies that make 4GL clones that >> either are awailable now or will be soon. >> >> All this where announce on the IWUC conference last week, but didn't >> seem to make it out to the "masses". >> >> With all this may be you don't need a primer on ESQL/C :-) > > I hope not; I have four years of hard-and-fast training on 4GL. If >I invest the time to install/run/learn esql/c, I might as well learn C >and GTK or something. May be you should look at Java then. High performance Java connectivity in the form of JDBC drivers will be available from OpenLink in a few days. Java will bring you much faster forward and much further than C when it comes to bussiness type applications. Of course C can bring you a little deaper down at least for now. That may change one day though. Just a thought. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)