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From: ambrose@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Ambrose)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix 4GL
Message-ID: <2158@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 88 20:02:08 GMT
References: <3028@cognos.UUCP> <1317@ntmtka.UUCP> <215@infmx.UUCP>
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In article <215@infmx.UUCP> greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk) writes:
>In article <1317@ntmtka.UUCP>, ed@ntmtka.UUCP (Ed Tripet) writes:
>>Informix 4GL will first generate Informix-ESQL/C code and then generate C code.
>>The code that is generated works very well, BUT the amount of code [...]
>>is very discouraging.
>
>Actually, we now have (has it been released yet?  if not then ANY DAY NOW!)
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>Greg Yachuk		Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA	(415) 322-4100

It should be noted that Informix has been *promising* this product
along with updates to its 4GL product for a long time.
Moral of the story: Don't hold your breath for anything soon. 

Paul Ambrose