Re: "WordWrap" and temporary s

In <memo.808385@cix.compulink.co.uk> shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes: >In-Reply-To: <randall.723872563@seashore> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) >TITLE: Re: "WordWrap" and temporary string storage >In <randall.723872563@seashore> Randall Rhea writes: >> One of the things I like about Informix-4GL is that it does NOT >> have all them "bells and whistles." This is also why I and many other >> people like C. Why have all those huge libraries filled with crud >> you'll never use? If you want the bells and whistles, you can always >> add them yourself.... >I sorry but this is completely the wrong attitude! The highlight bar >in display array is an obvious requirement. The fact that so many >people have had to hack together a fix is enough to show that. >Dynamic arrays are also a known requirement. To simply say you can >simulate it by doing such-and-such is completely wrong. I mean why >bother with INPUT ARRAY? With juditious use of INPUT, DISPLAY and >SCROLL you could simulate that too. Exactly! Let's go a step further -- why bother with 4gl at all? You can just use C! (Why bother with C at all? You can just use assembler! Why bother with an assembler at all? You can just hand toggle the code in from the front panel! ...) Has informix forgotten what "Fourth Generation Language" means??? Personally I think Informix has the wrong attitude toward customers. Maybe it's time Informix Corporate when around to each employee and whispered in their ear, "remember, without customers, you are out of a job". It clearly impacts Informix's selection, hence their profit, whether features like this are present or lacking. Many of my clients have opted NOT to go with Informix because of problems like these. Many would *rather* do it in C, Pro-C, etc., because at least they have a "real language" to work with. [Heh, and to think I laughed at them for using C as a database language before I'd used 4gl.] I'll end with my popular refrain: C'mon Informix, listen to your customers! -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."