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- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
- Subject: An insider's view
- Reply-To: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 09:13:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <memo.818132@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- I recieved this message today from someone inside Informix. I've been
- asked not to identify the individual but am posting the message with
- permission.
-
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-
- Hello,
-
-
- I hear every day that we have the best 4GL on the market ! It seems
- that our 4GL has a very big share of the Unix market. I don't hear
- very much from the marketing department that there should be so many
- missing features like popup menus, timer functions, improved input
- and display array statements, better cursor handling ( by the way
- ESQL/C has the same problem with cursor definitions. The only work-
- around would be to use the level below. On the C-level you see that
- cursors are structures. And there you can play with the address of
- these structures. ) and many others as we saw in the emails.
-
- And if these feature requests should be really justified - what is
- the problem ? As you already mentioned - is there something better
- on the market ? No - and people who come from Cobol or Assembler
- are happy with the product. Forget the few ones who want to make
- software with a screen handling which is state of the art. I would
- say our 4GL is really a fourth generation language. And if there is
- nothing which is much better - why should we spend money for
- implementing all these features if we can sell it as it is ?
-
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-
- So there it is. Comments are now invited from the audience...
-
- | I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way -- Jessica Rabbit |
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- Stuart
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