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From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: need help choosing between INGRESS and PROGRESS
Keywords: INGRESS, PROGRESS
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Date: 13 May 89 02:09:38 GMT
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In article <24295@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
> I haven't used PROGRESS, but I can confirm the weakness
> of Ingres' report writer.
> 
>   [ list of various weaknesses ]
>
 I'm not a fan of INGRES's report writer ( I have never really found one that
 I did like, actually), but there are actually two of them.

 Steve's comments all do apply to the screen-painting version.  There is also
 a much more powerful one based on a pseudo-language  (the screen-painting
 version actually translates to the pseudo-language and can be dumped and mani-
 pulated).

 greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny