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That's funny. I'm old enough remember them as a 4GL company and solution. I passed on them specifically because they were tied to Windows platform. Others, like Omni and WINDEV, could do multiplatform already. Most market share went to database-style ones like PROGRESS and INFORMIX.

Funny to see they're fighting for the trademark when even most 4GL users didn't give a shit about their product. What a lame company.

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I miss 4GL (and Vim) (and Christchurch).

Haha. WINDEV is actually going fairly strong by 4GL standards for today's environment. Still buggy as hell with All Features No QA focus per forum comments. Yet, they're still doing good on ease-of-use, all-in-one, RAD concept. I remember seeing that making a web app Ajax was basically a checkbox and then re-generates it.

A modern solution like that applying good QA and what we've learned in tooling/language design would still be a good thing I think. Especially considering all the lay people out there relying on Excel, VB6, etc. Could raise them up a bit with right design.

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