Re: 4GL standards? (was: An interesting meeting with IBM)

malcolm.weallans@btopenworld.com (malcolm) writes: > It is precisely because this is such a small volume market that we > should think about the potential confusion if IBM go one-way which is > incompatible with Qerix and 4Js. Suddenly we will have many > proprietary 4GLs out there, if we haven't already. (In my original > mail I set I floated the idea in 1988, that should have read 1998.) > The concept is that the IIUG (or other standards body) would certify > that versions of 4GL agreed to the standard language. Obviously this > would need funding but the compiler writers would pay to have their > syntax certified and the monies raised would be used to employ the > people to do the certification. I just don't fancy the problems when > IBM have changed screen handling of migration of 4GL written aeons ago > to the nes IBM dialect, to the Qerix dialect, and to the 4Js dialect. > So, if mehdi and peter collett are listening, and If IBM are > listening, how about solving this before it becomes a problem. I'm still evaluating Java/Eclipse/Ant for a 4GL replacement for all these reasons. I'm currently forced to use Sun's JVM because IBM just can't seem to release a JVM that works with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and their gcj port of Eclipse. -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B