Re: please help me enter the modern age

From : iiug>owner-informix-list To : adam Subject : Re: please help me enter the modern age Date : 01/01/70 01:01 > OK, now I'm looking at all of those old 4gl programs. Is there any way for > me to incorporate this old work into a new architecture? Does Informix even > support this kind of architecture? If I can't use 4gl, what kind of > programming language should I use? (It has to be procedural; there's no way > I can do the things I need to do with plain SQL.) Is there anything that > could be used that's at least similar to 4gl in programming structure? I > plan on staying in Unix or Linux, not NT. > Can any wise guru out there advise me? I tried to look at the Informix Web > page for answers to these questions, but quickly got lost. http://www.php3.org~ A very robust, featureful, and quick "scripting" language what support a variety of DB's. If you know any language you can pick it up in a few hours. Works with just about every web server out there (but of course, best with apache).

Adam Williams <adam@morrison-ind.com> wrote > http://www.php3.org/ > > A very robust, featureful, and quick "scripting" language what support a > variety of DB's. If you know any language you can pick it up in a few hours. > Works with just about every web server out there (but of course, best with > apache). Thanks! It looks like my major alternatives to Perl are either PHP or some form of Java. Or Tcl, which was recommended if I use the only other open-source Web server that I know of that uses persistent database connections, AOLServer. (The only one other than Apache, that is.)