Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ll-xn!ames!ptsfa!well!mjr From: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: BIG, BIG fun w/Informix cursors Message-ID: <3588@well.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 09:52:25 EDT Article-I.D.: well.3588 Posted: Mon Jul 20 09:52:25 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jul-87 05:31:02 EDT References: <229@paisano.UUCP> Reply-To: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport) Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 12 Keywords: Not a bug, a feature! In article <229@paisano.UUCP> demasi@paisano.UUCP (Michael C. De Masi) writes: >Anyway, to be fair to Informix, with the exception of the above probs >(which I'll admit I probably would have avoided if I'd read the doc a >bit more carefully) ESQL/C is a good tool, and has served me well. > This also goes to prove a point I've been making in a column... That even state-of-the-art non-procedural 4GL's are NOT so simple that any end user can sit down and write complex retrieval and update operations. This work is best left to specialists, no matter what the level of language interface... mjr@well (ptsfa!well!mjr)