Was it 4th Dimension where you could commit to a graphical approach or a text approach, or did Omnis give that choice in the early days?
Keith - CDI > On Nov 15, 2016, at 2:34 PM, Ed Glassgow <[email protected]> wrote: > > There have been efforts at pure graphical programming software. In fact, > there was a database program that was drag and drop in the relatively early > Mac days. I wish that I could remember what it was called, but time has > wiped that from my memory banks. It was very cumbersome to accomplish > anything of any complexity. I don’t think that there is an ideal solution > for everyone and have always thought that 4D offered a good blend. > > Ed > > On 11/15/16, 1:29 PM, "4D_Tech on behalf of Bill Weale" > <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > > As far as software “developers” are concerned, I may be an extreme example > of someone who is bothered by this type of learning. I simply don’t have the > patience/attention span/(motivation?) to devote the time and effort to the > repetitive (to me, boring to the point of stifling) behaviors required to > accomplish rote learning. > > Specific to 4D and other scripting platforms where an important result is > graphical, I’ve thought that I’d be a lot more productive if somehow the > programming “language” itself were more, er, graphical. There surely have > been improvements in my 25 years, but there’s still way too much text in this > world. > > 8-) > > Bill > > >> On Nov 14, 2016, at 6:26 PM, David Adams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> For those of you that pass parameters, order can matter. It's been, what, >> 30 years now I've been using 4D (!) and I *still* have to double-check >> Position and Find in array >> >> Position(Needle;Haystack) >> Find in array(Haystack;Needle) > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** > > > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
