Development tools (New focus?)

[Rick Hill]

Bjørn and everyone -- I think the new focus concept is a great idea.  
However, an important purpose of the list should still be to address 
issues/problems people are having with the Powerhouse products.  

But I agree that a great sub-topic is how to migrate ourselves from 
Powerhouse into other tools.  Maybe the subject line for these messages 
could be "Career Migration", to separate them from the other messages?  
That way, those who have no interest in migrating away from Powerhouse 
could ignore these career migration messages.

...
With regards to how Powerhouse skills can be used to transition into 
other areas, after having studied and worked a bit with VB, Java, SQL, 
PL/SQL, and Perl, I've got the following observations:

1.  There are SOME similarities between QUICK and VB, primarily the 
idea that QUICK is a bit event-driven.  For example, when the user 
enters something into a screen field, we know that there are specific 
procedures that will be executed.  We also know that a procedure 
(INITIALIZATION) will be executed every time a screen is loaded and 
run.  VB has similar concepts.  I found that when I was learning VB 
with others, that how to properly structure code for events was a 
struggle for some programmers.

2.  I have found SQL functions to have much in common with the built-in 
functions we have in QUIZ and QTP.

3.  When I learned PL/SQL, I felt at an advantage over others because I 
knew QTP well.

4.  Java is a very different animal -- you simply have to learn objects 
and I found it to be completely different from 4GLs like Powerhouse.  
Ditto for C++, although I believe doing forms in C++ is event driven as 
VB is.  If anything, Java and C are closer to assembler and COBOL, but 
driven off of objects.  

Sorry, but I'm not at all familar with .NET

Do others have opinions???


> Fellow listers!
> I seem like we all agree that PH is dying. Maybe we should change the
> focus for this list now?  Instead of helping each other understanding 
PH
> (and the reasons for it's sentence of death), maybe we should help 
each
> other migrating from PH.  Maybe we have some experience that will give
> us some advantage, moving back from 4GL to 3GL tools (where the "nerd
> programmers" rules, those who never have seen a customer / end user in
> the eyes).
> 
> Is it anything in the PH concept that is usable in the .NET or 
Java/J2EE
> world?
> 
> regards
> Bjørn Selfors, Delfi Data a.s.
> 
> 
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