On Nov 15, 2016, Ed Glassgow 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. it was called VIP from the company Mainstay. Visual Interactive Programming. As a matter of fact, I threw out the manual & diskettes just last week was clearing out my basement.
> That’s a nice walk down memory lane. All but 4D were very difficult to use. yes soo true. On Nov 15, 2016, Douglas von Roeder wrote: > 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. :-) I must have been crazy for trying them all, but 4D was for me the clear winner. Coming from a DB2 & IBM system-34 environment. It was coming from a B29 Flying Fortress then flying a crop duster and has that crop duster evolved !! Yes that was a very interesting time where all mentioned above were trying to become the DB on that weird Mac platform with only 4% or so market share. Brave young minds these DB creators. Clear example of evolution in action :-) greetings ernie hilgers(Aruba) ********************************************************************** 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:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
