What database created a file

[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.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

[El Corazon]

Brady Kelly wrote:

COBOL?

there is always LISP. The forgotten archaic one.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

[Jorgen Sigvardsson]

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

-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

[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. :)

Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Coming soon: Got a career question? Ask the Attack Chihuahua! www.PracticalUSA.com

[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)

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

[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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

[leppie]

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

xacc.ide - now with IronScheme support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 1 out now

[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? ;)

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

[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....

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

[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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg