Re: Alternative 4gl compilers/NT ?

> ritter@earthlink.net (Niles D. Ritter) writes: > > People I have been working with have indicated that Informix is not > planning on supporting the 4GL language under newer systems such as Windows NT, > and are actively encouraging the use of NewEra instead. That would be fine, > unless you already have ten-thousands of lines of code written in 4gl, which > does not easily translate to NewEra. It depends on how much of your code is screen interaction and how much is reports or other batch processing. Batch processing code shouldn't be that hard to translate. > Has anyone else heard that 4gl is not going to be supported on > new platforms? Yes, of course, if new platforms mean GUI interfaces. > We've got the beta NT Informix-Online database, but no 4gl compiler. Has anyone > heard of an alternative to the informix compiler? If not, I am probably > going to go ahead and write one myself (yes, I know what that entails). > And BTW, > we have already talked to the people at Query-X. Do you think you would get happy users running 4gl code in a GUI environement. Why not continue using 4gl applications on Unix and port to something else that is designed for GUI development when moving to a GUI environement. There simply is no way to make a character based, non event driven, language usable as a GUI tool. That is short of implementing event handling, which is what Informix did with NewEra. It's a dream that will never come true to be able to use 4gl code directly in a GUI environement and get happy users of true GUI applications. All you can do is a more or less bad GUI emulation that could have been a stop gap solution. But is that still interesting. Aren't users now demanding more? Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM-data, Aasesvei 71, 1300 Sandvika, Norway My opinions are those of my company