Re: NewEra/4GL ++ Query

Posted in 1994

Will Hartung - Master Rallyeist — 1 Aug 1994 20:18:05 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Forwarded message: > From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko) > Subject: Re: NewEra/4GL ++ Query > I don't know the current strategy with regards to ascii terminals; in > theory, a VCL (visual class library) could be created for such an > interface. However, it seems a lot of the "point" (if you will) of > NewEra would be lost in a non-GUI environment. > Dave Kosenko Yeah, gee, I can't imagine ever wanting to have the underlying application core designed and maintained with an object oriented language. That's what I hate about some of those other OO environments. They clutter everything up with all of those generic container classes like Lists and Hash Tables, and those nightmare extensible String classes. Yup, writing code for silly dumb terminals and having to take advantage of that kind of functionality, that would suck. :-/ Will (villy@collinscomp.com)