Re: Is SQL*FORMS maintainable

In article <1993Jun24.221535.21351_at_Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, dischner_at_med.uni-muenchen.de wrote:
>
> 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

We never store our forms in the database. We check our .inp files out of SCCS, load them into SQL*Forms, make our changes, generate them with the changes, and check them back into SCCS. In fact, its about 7 times faster to load an .inp file than it is to open a DB stored form.

-Devan

                             
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