Both Sybase and the fourth generation language, Powerbuilder, which they used for development were new products and the team had no previous experience of either product (00274). They had some technical problems with Powerbuilder (00274) and were forced to compromise the design in phase II because of limitations in Powerbuilder (00632). Although one of the developers would have preferred to implement in C++ (01045) and there was a view that tools like Powerbuilder can be regarded as a panacea (00032), there was a general agreement that the speed of development was a result of using Powerbuilder (00433, 01045). Powerbuilder increased in capability during development so that, for example, the release of a standalone version allowed them to develop the McDonalds captive system (01096).
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