What Is PowerBuilder?
PowerBuilder is the best GUI, RAD, Client/Server around, nothing can give you a fast run at application creation, and when Sybase introduced the PFC (PowerBuilder Foundation Class), it offered programmers a wonderful set of tools to build with. A foundation class is a set of programs, designed for programmers to use, so that they don’t have to completely recreate every thing that they are doing from scratch every time. Microsoft has the MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) designed for their C++ programmers use. And the objects, libraries, and methods that Sybase has created here are an invaluable tool for application creation. Glossary GUI Graphic User Interface, this describes a windows type environment. A GUI environment has some kind of pictures representing the words, and you get to use a mouse or other pointer to access programs. RAD Rapid Application Development a phrase that is defined by a style of computer programming made famous by a book by Steve McConnell called the same. He w
