Re: Progress

From: "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> > "Jack Parker" wrote ... > > > > You're getting eubonics mixed up with trailer-ese. > > The sooner that happens, the better for America I think. I'd be happier if both groups learned something closer to English. > > > Good to see you're still out there - how's it been? > > Flat out like a lizard drinkin' Ah, the imagery. > > A management reshuffle has put me under the grasping claws of a busy apps > development manager. Damn. I preferred the earlier shuffle that gave me more > time to experiment and lurn and chat. Ahh well, you can't have everything. I > mean, where would you put it? > > Been busy last several months bringing on FourJs new Genero, and it's lookin > good. The billions of lines of 4GL code are starting to look very modern > indeed - I'd say late 90's at this point, and we've got probably another 3 > or 4 years of sexy new style still to bring on. Is that an endorsement? > > And you? Still processing obscenely huge amounts of data? > Most of the huge amounts of data I process now are in my inbox and indeed much of it is either obscene or a virus. I'm sort of an independent consultant now - making the world safe for data and that sort of thing. Having a real fun time making Magic 'code' look silly. I guess I should say 'processes' they don't really have something you would call code. The whole point of Magic is that it's quick to develop in, but when it comes to run in production a 10 minute job takes 4 days. Makes process improvement startling when you go back to code - even when it's in Orrible. Keeping my hand in with the real database and looking at db2 in my spare time. cheers j. sending to informix-list

Jack Parker wrote: > > I'd be happier if both groups learned something closer to English. I was thinking more of a general blending of the country to a more uniform .... grey? colour. >> Been busy last several months bringing on FourJs new Genero, and >> it's lookin good. The billions of lines of 4GL code are starting to >> look very modern indeed - I'd say late 90's at this point, and we've >> got probably another 3 or 4 years of sexy new style still to bring >> on. > > Is that an endorsement? yeah - why not? All the debugged and well-featured business logic has been kept intact for the last five years, and now we can give it a bit more life. Perhaps several more years of life without it becoming "legacy" if we are lucky. > Keeping my hand in with the real database and looking at db2 in > my spare time. Keep the faith, brother.