Structure/4 and INFO
Structure/4 and INFO
Which is best? Structure/4 or INFO?
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Both. Structure/4 and INFO are complementary products.
They
work together on the same data to provide different functionality. S/4
and its programming language CWIC are tools primarily aimed at programmers who
want a high degree of control over the program logic and flow without
sacrificing speed of execution. It can take some time to learn CWIC, but a
programmer who is familiar with 'C', COBOL or Fortran will take to it quite
readily.
What are the particular strengths of Structure/4?
The key strengths of Structure/4 compared to INFO are :
Powerful programming syntax -
Much less coding required than normal 3GL languages, but it can include
subroutines written in any compiled language.
Performance - Structure/4 generates ANSI C source programs, which when compiled
using the appropriate C or C++ compiler, and linked into the S/4 runtime
library, produces executeable code that runs very efficiently on all platforms
Low Deployment Cost - Structure/4 executables will
run with only the run-time libraries installed. Run-time
licenses fees are only applicable where C-ISAM is used.
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