Re: New era ???

In article <487fcr$g5l@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, bw000001@pixie.co.za (Billy Wheeler) wrote: >Well, Kerry, <whimper> put down that baseball bat... :-) > >No, I agree in general terms with what you say, BASIC isn't really all that >far behind, but in this particular instance, database integration is >paramount. And furthermore, I believe that most of the people around here >aren't designing or writing database independent app's, hence my strong >stand on the evils of BASIC! :-) The point I was trying to make was that simply because a software house has plonked the label "BASIC" onto the end of their product doesn't mean it's a bad product. Similarly just because a company *doesn't* include the label "BASIC" onto their programming language doesn't mean that it is good. JYACC (JAM7), Compuware (Uniface), and Informix (4GL) label their languages as '4GL', so that's what people call them. That doesn't mean they're great languages, and share nothing in common with modern BASICs. Informix-4GL includes (as I mentioned earlier) LETs, INPUTs, RETURNs and GOTOs - all very traditional BASIC commands. Informix-4GL is a good language, but if it had been called Informix-BASIC I bet it would be well-slagged off at this point. Amazing what a bit of marketing will do :-) I'll be quiet now. Kerry S (who just hates blindly applied labels) ------------------------------------,------------------------------------------ Kerry Sainsbury, kerry@kcbbs.gen.nz | THE INFORMIX FAQ v2.4 Oct 95 Quanta Systems, Auckland | kcbbs.gen.nz:/informix/informix.[faq|apx] New Zealand. Work: +64 9 377-4473 | mathcs.emory.edu:/pub/informix/faq/ " " Home: +64 9 279-3571 | http://www.garpac.com/informix.html