Hallo Jan,

Jan Van Eeden schreef dit aan Louis Rizzuto:


 JVE>  Visual Age - an IBM product, this means...

 JVE>  1 - You can only write applications for OS2 or IBM related O/S

No way! Most Visual Age product come in OS/2, Win and AIX flavors.

 JVE>  2 - Only IBM supported database engines are allowed, i.e: DB2

Nope. The Smalltalk version sure knows how to handle MS SQL Server 6.0
The ( Windows ) C++ version does have some problems with it, but ODBC is supported.

 JVE>  3 - Poor product documentation and no 3rd party books.

Nope. I got the extended documention and it's huge. JdbP recommends a third
party book called OS/2 C++ Class Library. I got it and it's good.

The only drawback is the huge memory demands. I use a P5 64MB and it works
like a chairm.

 JVE>  1. You can either consider writing an OS2 application in Visual Age
 JVE>  C/C++ using resource editors, and that crap, taking you at least
 JVE>  5 months.

If you use a 386SX 16Mhz with 8 MB, sure.

 JVE>  2. You can evaluate another compiler, so far the best compiler for
 JVE>  OS2 I have ever seen is Speed Pascal, it`s brilliant! Pitty IBM
 JVE>  does not learn from these people.

No database support, no Speed Pascal.

 JVE>  3. Consider writing your applications for Windows.

Using Visual Age for Smalltalk, C++, Basic or Cobol?

Visual Age for Basic the the least visual of the product line. IMHO, it's not
worth the Visual Age name.

Toedeloe,
Jorgen de Gier

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