I would have to disagree. If one is going to develop a full-blown 
system, and not just write a couple of simple reports.  A good COBOL 
programmer will run circles around a COGNOS system!
I've never used Speedware, so I cannot speak to that one, but I would 
guess it would be about the same.

Now my frustration is with BRW - The one think I liked about COGNOS was 
that one can text up a program, print it out, run searches on it.  You 
cannot do that with BRW - the commands are not stored in a text file, 
but a specially formatted file type.  And you cannot search within it 
for where are variable might be used.    Or at least you won't get a 
very pretty printout if you do try to search.  But it isn't easy trying 
to figure out where something might be defined.

James B. Byrne wrote:
> Arguments about what to call PowerHouse or Speedware products are
> pointless. If not 4GL then what?  For transaction processing with a
> DBMS back-end both families are certainly head and shoulders more
> efficient with a programmer's time than COBOL, Fortran, Algol, APL,
> BASIC, C++, Java, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and whatever else the cat has
> coughed up this week, can ever hope to be.  Whatever else PH or SW
> might be I would not lump either in with that pile of worms.
>
>   

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