Current mood:

angry

Wow, that's an obnoxiously bad example...

Following up on some things mentioned in a potential job listing, I've found myself on the page for a 4GL RAD language/web platform. As per usual for these sorts of things, it advertises a list of benefits nigh-indistinguishable from those you'd get from hiring competent programmers, but (since it's a Trade Sekrit) provides no actual examples of their language/platform.

Then I get to their comparison with other tools. Their benchmark? The Java 2 Enterprise Edition Pet Shop demo. So, what they end up comparing is:

• Developing an application in a general-purpose language/platform (the Java solution);
• Porting an application from one general-purpose language/platform to an equivalent language on a slightly more restricted platform (the .NET solution); and
• Porting an application from a general-purpose language/platform to a single-purpose language/platform (their solution).

Guess which one fared the worst? <rolls eyes>