Yep, Double Helix! You nailed it Doug… That’s a nice walk down memory lane. All but 4D were very difficult to use. I used to host the Boulder Mac User Group at my office here in Boulder and I remember the night that someone brought a beta of this (the infamous Silver Surfer version). What an eye opener that was, and a nice journey since!
Ed On 11/15/16, 1:41 PM, "4D_Tech on behalf of Douglas von Roeder" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:34 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: You're thinking of Double Helix. When I started in 4D in 1991, I was hired to write a database application for a business using any of the Mac DB's. The contestants were 4D, FoxPro, Omnis, and Double Helix. FoxPro was too clumsy, Double Helix has an interesting approach (creating "tiles") but I knew it wouldn't grow well, and Omnis was so convoluted that I couldn't run the tutorials. 4D had a flowchart module. :-) -- Douglas von Roeder 949-336-2902 ********************************************************************** 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] **********************************************************************
