Re: 4Js/Compiler for migration from 4GL to Windows/Unix

In article <47lhuh$15n@Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Brueckner <peter> writes: > >Since september there is an new product in the market that gives >the abitlity to translate the original Informix-4GL code (without any changes) >with an compiler which is 100% compatible to the original one. > >The advantage of this Compiler is, that it comes with a complete graphical >solution for Windows (much better than 4Gl for Windows) and X11 based on >Tcl/Tk. I would like to add a more or less impartial comment about this software. Last week we (Adasoft) had someone come and install this software on one of our systems. I am amazed at how good this thing really is - we have a fairly large application, 150,000+ lines of 4gl code, and I am able to compile it all without modification. It runs on character mode terminals, X11 terminals and workstations, and Windows 95 PCs. They have done a very good job of implementing things under X11 and Windows that obviously took quite a bit of thought, and quite a bit of development effort. Even the C-language routines that are called from 4gl require only small changes, and the changes don't interfere with compiling the same source code in the "traditional" way with 4gl. I am very, very impressed with this product. I just wish that Informix had done something like this a long time ago, instead of blundering about with their efforts and producing nothing that we could use. jw