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From: brianc@daedalus (Brian Colfer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Any experiences with C-language screen generators?
Summary: How about Informix 4GL...
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Date: 25 Jul 89 20:10:50 GMT
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In article <617173680.11604@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>There's a company called the Oakland Group which has been doing a lot of
>advertising of a programming tool called C-Scape. It's designed to
>simplify the user-interface part of coding database applications in C.

I don't know the product...

>I sometimes get jealous of '4GL' programmers, who can code simple
>applications much faster than I, and would like to hear from anyone who
>knows of packages, PD, commercial, or anywhere in-between, which would
>allow me some of this speed without foring me to abandon C.

Informix 4GL precompiles down to C and then you can do what every you
want with it... I really like this.



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