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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
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 09:52:25 1987
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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)