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From: James.T..Tanis@f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (James T. Tanis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is 4d (Fourth Dimension) on Mac better than ALL?
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Date: 28 Dec 90 23:20:47 GMT
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Reply-To: jtt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu

A company I do contract work for got 4D to speed up development of some
in-house stuff. They ended up sending it back for a refund. The idea is
nice, but it just does not work properly. There are a great many
undocumented bugs, most of which the technical support people (when you
could find one that knew the product!) reluctantly admitted. Also, the
language is barbaric, with no notion of operator precedence, and no easy
way of terminating execution of a script.I ran into some problems with
stack handling, and occasionally the thing would crash without warning
while in the design mode!

We were using V. 2.1 - perhaps something has been fixed since then.

Also, it's not very relational, if you are a purist.

It _is_ nice, though, to bang out a quick user interface. 

-JT

 + Organization: Columbia University

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