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Visual GUI RAD IDE CASE tools and other buzzwords (Score:1)
I've been doing Gupta/Centura SQLWindows lately, and missing things like dynamic typing, array slices, hash arrays, regexes, etc.
And this is supposed to be one of the better GUI development environments :-) I'm still working on coming up with an overwhelming reason to get the ActiveState DevKit so I can at least develop some ActiveX libraries in perl to call from this environment. Even then some things will still be more cumbersome than just having it natively in the language.
But at least I've developed s