Re: Informix 4GL - Help is required

On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:04:49 +0200, "Billy Wheeler" <billy@west.co.za> wrote: > >On 16 Jun 98 at 8:29, Bob Foery wrote: > >> Our SuperNova Application Development is indeed object-oriented. > >> We support many OO features in the development language, including: > >Unfortunately, there are as many definitions of OO as there are >programmers and marketers. :-) I see your :-) - but still: Not so. What is required for a programming language to be object oriented is fairly well established. What is the best set of features to implement and how to do it is still discussed and studied extensively. That's how it should be. See my other post in this thread for my answer that SuperNova is OO according to what Bob Foery posted about it. >I suspect Nils considers anything "less" than Smalltalk as not OO... I have never used Smalltalk. Until quite resently it wasn't particularly usefull for our purposes. Now it has to a large extent been overrun by Java although that isn't exactly an ideal example of how OO should be implemented (or any language for that matter). There are other issues that make Java so interesting. Nils Myklebust NM Data AS Norway E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html (Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)