Re: INFORMIX WISH LIST

Posted in 1997

Richard Stanford — Fri, 27 Jun 1997 10:14:41 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 27 Jun 1997, Joseph Cullipher wrote: > Tim, > I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but how about Informix implementing > some of those great utilities that are on the IIUG archives into 4GL. There > have been alot I have used just because 4GL doesn't provide an easy or any > command to do some things that should be included. Now that's an idea. I know Informix seems intent on putting 4gl out to pasture, but its still a really useful language for text applications (and web interfaces are text based, hrm?). Specifically, the one feature I'd like to see would be some form of native file handling, and ideally the ability to understand STDIN in the same manner. Just my US$0.02 -Richard