What database created a file

Brady Kelly

I'm a qualified COBOL programmer. I have zero experience, but I have a COBOL diploma from van Zyl and Pritchard. They put me onto SAP (ABAP/4) before I was exposed to the risk of COBOL.

Douglas Troy

Nah. If he were really trying to scare people, he would have said BTRIEVE. X|

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Christopher Duncan

:omg: :omg: :omg: The horrors!

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Russell Jones

I'm using that at the moment, it's a great database ;-)

Russell Jones

What a great idea, I hadn't considered doing that (doh) I'll take a look when i get back from work. Russell

El Corazon

Douglas Troy wrote:

If he were really trying to scare people, he would have said BTRIEVE.

there is always the possibility of raw home-built database storage via n-leaf tree structures.

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El Corazon

Brady Kelly wrote:

COBOL?

there is always LISP. The forgotten archaic one.

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Jorgen Sigvardsson

Could it be any worse than dBase/Foxpro? :~

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Angelo Cresta

I agree (new btrieve version: pervasive.Sql) Angel

Brady Kelly

Sssh! Don't let leppie hear that. :~

Christopher Duncan

Fortunately, I made it through the wars without those particular emotional scars. :)

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El Corazon

Brady Kelly wrote:

Sssh! Don't let leppie hear that.

it has lambdas, therefore it must be great! ;) ((lambda (arg) (+ arg 1)) 5)

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Brady Kelly

Slowly there! I've only just grokked C# lambdas.

El Corazon

Brady Kelly wrote:

Slowly there! I've only just grokked C# lambdas.

slowly... that is the father of all lambdas! it is the origin, the black hole at the center of the universe that exploded into a multitude of future lambdas! It is the lambda eden, the lambda big-bang! :-D

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leppie

Sadly even with C# lambdas, that will still be a 2 liner :| Imagine the compiler allowed you to do (a =>a + 1)(5)

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Brady Kelly

Can I guess it evaluates to 6?

El Corazon

Brady Kelly wrote:

Can I guess it evaluates to 6?

you had to guess? ;)

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El Corazon

Christopher Duncan wrote:

I made it through the wars without those particular emotional scars.

how fortunate you are.... I had to do my share of dBase back in the day.... it really was dBasing oneself....

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Brady Kelly

The prefix notation had me going for a moment. ;P

El Corazon

Brady Kelly wrote:

The prefix notation had me going for a moment.

that's just speaking with a lisp to me. ;P

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