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From: bobd@bloom.UUCP (Bob Donaldson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: NATURAL. A LANGUAGE? A DBMS ? NEITHER?
Summary: Natural & Adabas
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Date: 8 May 89 12:54:27 GMT
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NATURAL is Software AG's 4GL that runs in conjunction with Adabas - their
DBMS.  The system runs (as the original poster mentioned) in a BIG BLUE
environment.  The language is not too bad and very easy to for a new user
to learn simple 'display to screen' kinds of queries.  As a programmer, I
don't like the fact that it "protects" me from getting into trouble by 
leaving features out.  A sampling of the most glaring ommissions - arrays
and subroutines.  Still, if you don't have a lot of math to worry about,
you can develop nice applications quite quickly.

-=-
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