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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Database toolkits
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Date: 11 Jun 88 23:11:38 GMT
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>>4D Quality?  I believe it.  4th Dimension and dBaseMac are slow and
>>terrible programs.  They are huge, slow, complicated, and buggy.  The
>>Resource Manager is a bit better.

>Ha! Ha! Ha!  I just love to see pompous jerks (the 4th D people) get flamed!!!!

Yeah, so do I. But I'll leave the flaming to someone else.

As someone who's been working fairly intensively with 4D for a number of
months, I think it's a good program. It has some strengths and weaknesses
(and it could be faster for some large operations, something that is being
addressed by Acius) but I've found in my work that in most cases, there's no
noticable sludginess. What is the difference between a program that works as
fast as you do and one that works faster that you can? Effectively, nothing.

If you want to see what I think about 4D, no holds barred, keep an eye on
Macintosh Horizons, where an indepth series of articles (about 12,000 words
and a complete database, total) is being published. Or you can listen to
people who love to flame without any recourse to things like facts.

chuq (freelancing for, among other things, Mac Horizons)

Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

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