Re: Question about 4GL's verses C

Peter Wiley - Poultry (peter@prospect.anprod.csiro.au) wrote: : I'm with Alan. My leverage in 4GL vs C is at least an order of magnitude : better. Of course, that may say as much about my C programming as it does : about 4GL. :) : The other issue is portability without tears. I've seen posts here about : problems with ESQL-C using a particular flavour of C compiler etc. With : 4GL p-code I just move the files and run. : Now, if only 4GL had more math functions - starting with log & antilog.... In general I agree, however there is one area that causes us to either resort to C or at best double the size of our 4GL code, and that is coming up with a decent user interface ie one that "DOS Dummies" (excuse the term please) can use. The problem lies with the "little" but never theless important things like making certain keys behave as the user would expect, having a word wrap field that behaves "normally" and so on. Certainly being able to redefine some keys does help but there are too many limitations. I would be interested in other people's thoughts in this area. Cheers, Scott. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott McClintock EMail: scott@musys.mpx.com.au MU Systems Pty Ltd Brisbane Australia. INFORMIX APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------