Re: Progress

----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hamm" <ahamm@mail.com> To: <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 6:17 PM Subject: Re: Progress > 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. Ugh - that would be dull. Half the fun of being here is the diversity. > > >> 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. always sistuh. cheers j. sending to informix-list

Jack Parker wrote: >> >> I was thinking more of a general blending of the country to a more >> uniform .... grey? colour. > > Ugh - that would be dull. Half the fun of being here is the > diversity. If only most people DID consider it "fun" !!!