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- Path: sparky!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!aburt
- From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
- Subject: Re: "WordWrap" and temporary s
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.150016.8295@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <memo.808385@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:00:16 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- In <memo.808385@cix.compulink.co.uk> shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming) writes:
- >In-Reply-To: <randall.723872563@seashore> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea)
- >TITLE: Re: "WordWrap" and temporary string storage
- >In <randall.723872563@seashore> Randall Rhea writes:
-
- >> One of the things I like about Informix-4GL is that it does NOT
- >> have all them "bells and whistles." This is also why I and many other
- >> people like C. Why have all those huge libraries filled with crud
- >> you'll never use? If you want the bells and whistles, you can always
- >> add them yourself....
-
- >I sorry but this is completely the wrong attitude! The highlight bar
- >in display array is an obvious requirement. The fact that so many
- >people have had to hack together a fix is enough to show that.
- >Dynamic arrays are also a known requirement. To simply say you can
- >simulate it by doing such-and-such is completely wrong. I mean why
- >bother with INPUT ARRAY? With juditious use of INPUT, DISPLAY and
- >SCROLL you could simulate that too.
-
- Exactly! Let's go a step further -- why bother with 4gl at all? You
- can just use C! (Why bother with C at all? You can just use assembler!
- Why bother with an assembler at all? You can just hand toggle the code in
- from the front panel! ...)
-
- Has informix forgotten what "Fourth Generation Language" means???
-
- Personally I think Informix has the wrong attitude toward customers.
- Maybe it's time Informix Corporate when around to each employee and
- whispered in their ear, "remember, without customers, you are out of
- a job". It clearly impacts Informix's selection, hence their profit,
- whether features like this are present or lacking. Many of my clients
- have opted NOT to go with Informix because of problems like these.
- Many would *rather* do it in C, Pro-C, etc., because at least they
- have a "real language" to work with.
-
- [Heh, and to think I laughed at them for using C as a database language
- before I'd used 4gl.]
-
- I'll end with my popular refrain: C'mon Informix, listen to your customers!
- --
-
- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu
-
- "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."
-