RE: Is SQL*FORMS maintainable

Dave Dusseldorp wrote:

: ... the programmer never gets to see the program as a whole ...
: ... It would seem to me that after a program is written it would
: be very hard for any programmer who hadn't written it to easily maintain
: it.

You are right. That is a real problem with 4GLs. But SQL*FORMS stores its code in the RDBMS -and- in a human readable form (i think it's called <application-name>.inp). You can even use this to recreate your application if it is lost in the RDBMS tables or the binary save-file. But Oracle warns you to modify it by hand an read it in again.

Anton Dischner_at_med.uni-muenchen.de
Klinische Chemie Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen, Germany. Received on Fri Jun 25 1993 - 00:15:35 CEST