Re: Prepare for the unwashed hordes!

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > In a short while (weeks perhaps) Informix will have Dynamic 4GL > available for Linux. 4J who develop this product actually do all their > development on Linux machines and have done so for quite some time, so > this will be a real tier 1 release :-) Yeah, I hear that from several places. > 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"? > 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. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Fahrlander Problem Solver, Technomad, and Linux-head Evansville, IN SKEP-TI-CULT member ICQ:5119262 http://www.kamakiriad.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What's Bill hiding? Could it BE the rape of a young girl? That would explain the large amount of heat and lack of light.