Re: A Better Way To Write Pick/Browse Lists [1/4]

->From: bill@promdist.pds.com (Bill Foote) ->Subject: Re: A Better Way To Write Pick/Browse Lists [1/4] ->Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 19:05:14 GMT ->Reply-To: bill@promdist.pds.com (Bill Foote) ->Organization: PDS Corp., Los Angeles, CA USA -> ->In article <1993May11.211007.26937@rpslmc.edu> eklhad@siss81.sis.rpslmc.edu (Karl Dahlke) writes: -> ->>Informix claims a ten fold increase in productivity via 4gl (as opposed to C), -> ->and who says that they don't have a sense of humor? :-) -> ->Then again, perhaps their figure is based on extremely bad C programmers. ->-- ->Bill Foote bill@pds.com ->PDS Corp, Los Angeles, CA USA uunet!promdist!bill -> I suppose it depends on your benchmark test. I agree that writing IF a = b THEN CALL foo () END IF is not 10 times as easy/productive as if ( a == b ) { foo () } HOWEVER, please tell me what is the C equivalent of MAIN MENU "MAIN MENU" COMMAND "File" "File submenu" CALL file_sub () COMMAND "Edit" "Edit submenu" CALL edit_sub () COMMAND "Report" "Report submenu" CALL report_sub () COMMAND KEY(X) "eXit" "Exit from program" EXIT MENU END MENU END MAIN That's 12 lines of code. While I am not well versed in C, I would guess that the equivalent functionality would require considerably more than 120 lines of C code. Regards, Alan +------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | R. Alan Popiel | Internet: alan@den.mmc.com | | Martin Marietta, LSC | ( Please note: My opinions do not ) | | P.O. Box 179, M/S 5422 | ( represent official Martin policy. ) | | Denver, Colorado 80201-0179 | Voice: 303-977-9998 | +------------------------------+---------------------------------------+