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by inejge
1518 days ago
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A snarky tagline used to say, "Informix-4GL is not 4G, and it's barely an L." I understand the sentiment, although in reality it wasn't that bad. What I4GL and its ilk accomplished was to make a passable bridge between SQL and a vanilla procedural programming language, which still had the usual SQL/procedural impedance mismatches, but was miles ahead of horrors like Embedded SQL/C (as you've alluded to with the remark about generated C's verbosity.) I did my share of I4GL programming and still remember it semi-fondly. |
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