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- From: luca@ipgaix.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli)
- Subject: Tools for portable applications
- Message-ID: <1992Sep02.114018.142967@ipgaix.unipg.it>
- Organization: Universita' di Perugia
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 11:40:18 GMT
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- Here is the problem I am trying to solve.
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- I write client/server applications in the SNA world where the client
- machine is a PC running OS/2 or Windows. The client app makes use of
- a GUI.
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- I am looking for a product which is portable among these architectures
- and which can speed up the development process (i.e. I don't want to
- use the SDK). I would like also to limit as much as possible the C/C++
- programming since the people I work with are Cobol programmers in
- the mainframe environment.
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- I have seen some of such products but none that satisfy me.
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- For instance many DBMS have tools of this kind but seem oriented to be
- used in conjunction with the DBMS.
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- Others are interpreted and seem slow.
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- Presently I am examining the following products:
- - JAM by JYACC
- - NS-DK by Nat Systems (a French company)
- - SQLWindows by GUPTA
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- Others have been discarded:
- - Visual Basic because runs only under Windows
- - Foundation by Arthur Andersen because of the astronomical cost
-
- Do you have any comments to make and products to suggest? Consider
- that our area of application is the accounting.
-
- If I have to make the painful decision of using C or C++ which would
- be a good product to use (e.g. class libraries like Common View or
- Zinc, or ...). Any comments on this?
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- Thanks,
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- Luca Priorelli
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- PS: is there a group specifically dedicated to this type of questions?
-