Re: Adabas Natural Consultants

From: "Neil Truby" <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> > >From: Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> > > >From: "Neil Truby" <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> > > >Well, so's COBOL, I guess. Seriously, last time I looked at Unnatural, I > >really thought I was reading a COBOL program. (I didn't look too long, > >though, I didn't want to regress too much! :-) > >Natural's the programming language. If you thought you were reading a >COBOL >program I don't think you were really paying attention - the language is >designed to retrieve data from an Adabas database and this is reflected in >its structure and syntax. Unlike COBOL. I wasn't really paying attention, no, my judgement was formed on the very superficial basis that the program had the same sort of sections as a COBOL program and looked incredibly tedious and long-winded. :-) >I still maintain that Adabas is pretty damn good, and would give Informix a >run for its money. No, its marketing might not be quite as bad as >Informix's (although I think that the Marketing Directors of each company >may have done the same marketing correspondence course ("translated >especially for you from the native Portugese by our translators based in I think you're making a rather rash assumption that anyone from Informix's marketing department actually knows anything at all about marketing or has been trained in any form or fashion. :-) >Surinam")). It also suffers from allowing performance enhancing features >like repeating groups which are strongly dispproved of by the Relational >Police (also a division of marketing IMHO). > >Just remember, it was very fashionable for many years to deride Rodney >Ackland, but now he's hailed as the father of modern comedy drama. >Speaking >of comedies! Those pills (that Pils?) that you're taking -- can I have some too please? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com